Prescriptive
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Confusions sometimes arise with words beginning prescri-.
- There is a confusion over two very similar verbs, prescribe and proscribe, of which adjectival forms are prescriptive and proscriptive.
- There is a confusion, particularly in linguistics, between prescriptive and descriptive.
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