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請問compel是否可等於force(verb)呢?另外,compel個名詞是否等於compulsion?
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When comes to synonyms, depends on who you ask, no two words are exactly the same. And people do use different words differently. As far as I was told even "yam" does not equal "sweet potato"
For general purpoes daily usage, "compel" often does equal to "forced" but I am sure many word-smith/writers will disagree.

How to judge the word is synonym or not?

The thesaurus

check it out.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/

I also want to know what is the difference between segregate and separate?You are better to use chinese explain to me because that will be more clear.

同義字差別在力道,規模,背景和使用範圍
separate 的規模較小
segregate有種族衝突的背景