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Here are a few more for your collection (words that should be opposites, but aren't):
Patch and dispatch
Sign and design
Mean and demean
Base and debase (or abase)
Liver and deliver
Pair despair (ok, that's abit of a stretch)
Vert and invert
and here's one you missed
Bate and rebate
Also, if inflate means to grow and deflate means to diminish, why doesn't 'flate' mean to stay the same.
>>>>Well ... yes and no. "uninterested" means "not interested" as in "... in your topic", whereas "disinterested" means "impartial", as in "... as to which team wins".
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>>>>The point I was making is that there are many English word pairs like this that are used erroneously.
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>>>And then there are pairs which aren't pairs, just look so. Just try to weed these out. I took mostly verbs, and a few others that I couldn't resist. Not quite sure about some of them - does the second word mean repetition of the first in some way or not.
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>>bar - rebar (what's rebar?)
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>I think it's something American... some sort of iron bar. Don't know exactly what.
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>>bus - rebus (what's rebus?)
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>"A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words"
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>>enforce - reenforce (I think you mean re-inforce
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>Sounds so, but I found "reenforce" in the dictionary as well.
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>>face - reface (what's reface?)
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>"Put a new facing on, as of a garment"
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>>sister - resister (as in electrical - it's resistor)
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>"A disputant who advocates reform"
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>>tort - retort (what's a tort)
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>"Any wrongdoing for which and action for damages may be brought"... probably another American legal term.
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>>Nice selection of words. Many you need to blame the French for again. They use "re" in many words and don't mean "again". e.g. "retour" means "turn".
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