Name
Name verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Usage example: you don't like my offer? Just name your price
Prefer and name are semantically related in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Prefer" instead a verb "Name", when it comes to topics like choose.
Prefer
Prefer verb - To show partiality toward.
Usage example: I generally prefer chocolate ice cream over vanilla
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It's also noted that Trinity states that she dislikes her real name and prefer her title and her hate her men most likely was the reason she started a relationship with Jubei, a two-tailed cat-man.
Source: Does Not Like Men - Canon Foreigner Sanae Demokori from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions anime seemed to prefer to be called by last name, even among her classmates ("Deko-chan").
- Like Voldemort above, most prefer to avoid even saying his name, calling him instead by a variety of titles, the most common of which is "Dark One" (no, not that Dark One).
Source: The Dreaded / Literature
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