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adjective
1.
that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
2.
depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title established by a long unchallenged tenure.
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Prescriptive
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is cogent. Does it mean:
| to set apart and authorize for some specific purpose; to take for oneself or to take without permission or consent |
| appealing to the mind or to reason |
Example Sentences
- Ideology is slowly becoming rigidly prescriptive and political transcendence is becoming less and less possible or admirable.
- In the common shorthand, linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive.
- Power is also a scholar who is descriptive rather than prescriptive.
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