SRIPRAKASH ARCHIVES: LEARN A VERB A DAY: 2000-01 Basic meaning: write (Latin: SCRIBERE)–107 (b) SUBSCRIBE: write under agreement for payment, cause, service, etc Usage: I subscribe to the Week magazine regularly. She subscribes to an animal protection society. I can’t subscribe to unnecessary killing. DICTIONARY ACTIVITY ASCRIBE: credit in (as in writing)—attribute to a cause DESCRIBE: write or explain in detail PRESCRIBE: write a rule or direction that must be followed PRESCRIPTION: the written order for a medicine before it can be taken PROSCRIBE: write off or ban something as by a decree; prohibit, forbid TRANSCRIBE: copy across in writing TRANSCRIPTION: act of copying across in writing TRANSCRIPT: written or recorded copy of what has been said or written; INSCRIPTION: writing in rocks and metals SCRIVENER: clerk, notary, scribe NONDESCRIPT: lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form SHRIVE: 1. hear the confession of and give absolution to (a penitent) 2. obtain absolution for (oneself) by confessing and doing penance
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