Synonym Study

• Charge implies the imposition of a task as a duty, trust, or responsibility
• Enjoin suggests a directing with urgent admonition he enjoined us to secrecy and sometimes implies a legal prohibition the company was enjoined from using false advertising
• Direct and instruct are both used in connection with supervision, as in business relations, instruct perhaps more often stressing explicitness of details in the directions given
• Order often stresses peremptoriness, sometimes suggesting an arbitrary exercise of authority I ordered them out of the house
• Command , when it refers to a giving of orders, implies the formal exercise of absolute authority, as by a sovereign or military leader