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| obviate - vocabulary verb To anticipate, eliminate, or prevent difficulties by effective measures, as in to obviate the risk of injury. The Internet, on the other hand, not only creates niche communities—of young peop… |
| officious - vocabulary adjective Intermeddling with what is not one's concern; overly aggressive in offering one’s unwanted and unrequested services. The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, offici… |
| panacea - vocabulary noun A remedy or medicine for all disease, a cure-all; a solution for all difficulties or problems. "It's not all rubbish," cried Amory passionately. "This is the first time in my life I've argued… |
| March vs. March March vs. MarchJust before we get started, it's important to clarify that there’s no rule that the word ”march” must never be used with capital letters. In other words, writing ”march” with a capital… |
| Superlative Adjective Most of us who have some basic knowledge and understanding of English language are familiar with the term adjective. If not, we still use them in our everyday life but might not know what they are ca… |
| Naught vs. Nought The source of some of the most confusing spelling differences in English can be placed in the evolution of the English vocabulary over the past decades.American English and British English vary a lot… |
| Movable or Moveable Some adjectives can be really tricky due to their derivation rules. And especially if there are more versions, as in the case of “movable” and “moveable”, or “lovable” and “loveable”, you can get rea… |
| Homonyms vs. Homophones vs. Homographs Homonyms vs. Homophones vs. Homographs The most frequently confused words in English are used wrongly mainly because they are very identical. It might be that they are spelled similarly, they are … |
| Fulfil vs. Fulfill Say you were asked to make a sentence with expectation and you wrote this: Getting an A on the test did not fulfil her expectations While proofreading it, did you pause at fulfil and wondered if thes… |
| Favor vs. Favour Can you do me a favor and bring the grocery bags inside.Favor is a widely used word which can be spelled with or without the u. If you are confused about when to use which favor and what is the diffe… |
| Seize vs. Cease The enemy countries ceased fire and then one seized the other’s air force base. Does the above sentence makes sense to you? It uses two homophones i.e. a pair or words that have same pronunciation bu… |
| Lay vs. Lie The words lay and lie are one the most confusing pair of words, which are often mistaken for each other. The words have different spellings, meanings and pronunciations but their very close spellings… |
| Historic vs. Historical The words historical and historic were synonymous to each other back in the 18th century meaning something that belonged to or is representative of the past. Historic was used as a shortened for… |
| Assure vs. Ensure vs. Insure The heading might give the creeps for if you might somehow knew the differences of these three words before, you must have forgotten them written together. Assure, ensure and insure are word triplets… |
| Learned vs. Learnt What is the past tense of learn? Consider the following sentence:I learnt French last year.Are you getting thoughts in your mind that say that this sentence has got something wrong in it? Maybe it’s … |
| Censure vs. Censor vs. Sensor The government faced censure for censoring harmless images in the magazine.The words censure, censor and sensor are homophones and all three of them have similar pronunciation which is s-en-sur. The … |
| Assent vs. Ascent vs. Accent He assented to do an Irish accent while they ascended in the air balloon.What do you think about the above sentence? Does it make sense to you? Are the meanings of the three homophones clear after re… |
| Pore vs. Pour Take a look at the above two sentences. One of them is not correct. Can you identify which one? Pore and pour are homophones which means that they both rhyme with each other but their meanings and s… |
| Illicit vs. Elicit The boss’s illicit association with his secretary elicited for a solution in order to retain the healthy office environment. Illicit and elicit have very close spellings and pronunciation with each o… |
| Envelop vs. Envelope He tore open the envelope as he was enveloped in anguish. Does the above sentence make sense to you? It includes two homophones envelop and envelope which are both related but their meanings are slig… |
| Flout vs. Flaunt He always flaunts about how he flout the rules every time. The above sentence contains two very closely associated words, flout and flaunt, which have vaguely similar pronunciation and spellings but … |
| Course vs. Coarse Consider the sentence written below:The weaving course he took did not demonstrate on how to stitch coarse weave.A little confusing, isn’t it? Course and coarse are both used in the sentence but are … |
| Broach vs. Brooch She sat on the couch, handed me a pearl brooch and broached the sensitive subject of her declining health.Broach and broach are two words that have same pronunciation and almost similar spellings (wi… |
| Common Yiddish Idioms in English Did you know that the word “bagel” is taken from Yiddish?How about the origin of the word “glitch”? Did you ever use the word “schlep”? Also from Yiddish! Continue reading to learn… |
| Grammatical Person Person is a very common word of English language and anyone with basic English understanding knows and understands what this means. But there are only a handful of people that know what a grammatical… |
