Merit and Right

Merit

Merit noun - A quality that gives something special worth.

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Right and merit are semantically related In some cases you can use "Right" instead the word "Merit" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: merited, meriting

Right noun - Something to which one has a just claim.

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Merit and right are semantically related in privilege topic. Sometimes you can use "Merit" instead the word "Right" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: righteous, rightful, righted, rightly, righting

special	special merit	special right
equal	equal merit	equal right
perfect	perfect merit	perfect right
legal	legal merit	legal right
Other adjectives: single, real, little, bad, moral, sole, general, final, greater.

attention	merit attention	right attention
title	merit title	right title

While he's right about the fact that Uraraka had a plan, she actually declined Midoriya's help, wanting to win or lose on her own merit.

Source: Right for the Wrong Reasons
They wouldn't have so many recruits willing to lay down their lives if they didn't have some merit, right?

Source: Rooting for the Empire
The Artificial Gravity that keeps them right-side-up doesn't even merit a mention, as it's questionable whether the writers even knew that people on space ships experience zero gee.

Source: Mohs / Science in Genre Only

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