# Words one can get confused

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**Created:** [September 18, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-one-can-get-confused/971772 "2022-09-18T20:10:31Z")\
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**Prescribe:** advise and authorize the use of a medicine or treatment; recommend as something beneficial; state authoritatively or as a rule that an action or procedure should be carried out;

**Proscribe:** Forbid, especially by law; denounce or condemn.

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