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own
Adjective
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If something is your own it belongs to you or is about you (often used for emphasis).
I wish I had my own home.
I bought it in my own name.
The toy began to move as though it had a life of its own.
accidents happen, and often in your very own home.
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If you are on your own, you are by yourself, there is no body else with you. This can also mean there is no one helping you.
I was on my own in the woods.
If you try to do that you're on your own - or at least I won't help you!
own
Verb
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If you own something it belongs to you, it is yours.
Yes, I own a car.
I plan to build a house on the land I own.
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If you "own up" to something, you admit you did it.
I had to own up to lying about our relationship.
affair
Noun
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Affairs are things that happen or are done, usually that are important enough to be in the news.
We're thinking less about foreign affairs, and more about what happens here inside the country.
He now writes a column for the newspaper and hosts a weekly public affairs program.
The whole affair with was a terrible mess.
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An affair is a romantic or sexual relationship between two people when at least one of them is married to somebody else.
There were many brief, desperate love affairs between English women and the American soldiers during the war.
She thinks her mother may be having an affair with a doctor.
Baseball is a love affair Japan shares with America.
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An affair is something that is related to a particular individual or group.
What I do in my free time is my affair.
Policing on Indian reservations is the job of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.