Assignment and Variation

Assignment

Assignment noun - A piece of work that needs to be done regularly.

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Variation and assignment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Variation" instead a noun "Assignment".

Variation noun - A distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play).

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Assignment and variation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assignment" instead a noun "Variation".

Nearby Words: variety, variable, varied, variance, variant

old	old assignment	old variation
good	good assignment	good variation
nice	nice assignment	nice variation
special	special assignment	special variation
Other adjectives: particular, simple, popular, real, serious, new, possible, unusual, recent.

An amusing variation: Jim Lovell is traveling to a hotel in Houston under the name of Max Peck, to receive his new assignment as a NASA astronaut.

Source: Confronting Your Imposter
A variation of this was used as the focus of an episode of Stark Raving Mad: Maddie announces that as her last college assignment, she has to write a book report about Ian.

Source: The B Grade
The group variation is done towards the end of Simoun where the survivors of Chor Tempest hold hands as they walk together into the Spring for their final gender assignment.

Source: Holding Hands

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