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assimilate
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    My grandparents were eager to assimilate, so they insisted that only English be spoken at home.
    assimilate = fit into a prevailing culture
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    This country assimilates immigrants very quickly.
    assimilates = takes in and transforms to fit into the prevailing culture
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    Finally it subsided as the memories were assimilated. But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain. And knowledge.  (source)
    assimilated = taken in
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    Yet their financial success masked their cultural unease, and if my grandparents caught up economically, I wonder if they ever truly assimilated.†  (source)
    assimilated = took in, transformed, or fit in
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    That's the only way to make it in this world--to assimilate into the society in which we live.  (source)
    assimilate = fit into (become a part of by being similar to the other parts)
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    And you're a badge of public shame, because at every step you interfere with their efforts at assimilation into normal complying society.†  (source)
    assimilation = the process of taking in, transforming, or fitting in
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Returning to District 8 or assimilating into another district would be impossible.†  (source)
    assimilating = taking in, transforming, or fitting in
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    It is the greatness of a selfless young spirit that assimilates all things and returns them to the world from which they came, enriched by the gentle brilliance of its own talent.†  (source)
    assimilates = takes in, transforms, or fits in
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    Excluded from, and unassimilated in our society, yet longing to gratify impulses akin to our own but denied the objects and channels evolved through long centuries for their socialized expression, every sunrise and sunset makes him guilty of subversive actions.†  (source)
    unassimilated = not taken in, transformed, or made to fit in
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unassimilated means not and reverses the meaning of assimilated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He showed a way by which reason may be expanded to include elements that have previously been unassimilable and thus have been considered irrational.†  (source)
    unassimilable = not capable of being taken in, transformed, or made to fit into
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unassimilable means not and reverses the meaning of assimilable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He skims through a section about how the Jews arrived, giving up their religious orthodoxy to adopt a sort of liberal cosmopolitanism, giving over, in a way, to the same assimilatory currents that Franklin is being swept forward by.†  (source)
    assimilatory = of something taken in, transformed, or fit into
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    It was as if a new birth, with stronger assimilations than the first, had converted the forest-land, still so uncongenial to every other pilgrim and wanderer, into Hester Prynne's wild and dreary, but life-long home.†  (source)
    assimilations = instances of taking in, transforming, or fitting in
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    His family had always been fairly assimilated, but living so completely outside of halacha, the religious laws that governed daily Jewish life, came as a shock.†  (source)
    assimilated = took in, transformed, or fit in
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