Sample Sentences for
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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    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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    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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    I need fuel so I can sort things out and assimilate them properly.†  (source)
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    Within a year of my arrival, even the Union of American Exiles showed signs of "assimilation."†  (source)
    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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    He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority.†  (source)
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    I believe he is of mine; — I am sure he is — I feel akin to him — I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.†  (source)
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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)
    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)
    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)
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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)
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    They couldn't be assimilated; anyway, most of them prefer it here.†  (source)
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