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| voice - correct spelling noun and verb Example: After teaching all day, he lost his voice. noun Example: We want to voice our concerns. verb |
| waist - correct spelling noun Grammar.com’s section on Problem Words discusses waist and waste. Click here for that discussion. Example: Each Christmas, his waist noticeably expanded. |
| wear - correct spelling verb and noun Example: He will wear his formal suit to the dance. verb Example: He got a lot of wear out of that coat. noun |
| while - correct spelling subordinating conjunction, noun, and verb Example: She whistled while she worked. subordinating conjunction Example: Sit down and rest for a while. noun |
| yacht - correct spelling noun and verb Example: His yacht cost a fortune. noun Example: He likes to yacht throughout the Caribbean. verb |
| yield - correct spelling verb and noun Example: This action will yield positive results. verb Example: He sought a higher yield on his investments. noun |
| acumen - vocabulary acumen - noun Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of judgment, insight, discrimination. Note: The older pronunciation stresses the second … |
| 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… |
| Tautology: Definition and Best Examples Are you redundant when you write? The word tautology refers to a phrase in which the same meaning is expressed twice. The word comes from the Greek “tauto” meaning “same” and “logy" m… |
| Award vs. Reward Award Award can be used as a noun or a verb. It means a prize or a grant given to someone for doing something big. In late middle English, award was used to denote ‘issuing of judicial decision’ whi… |
| Apologize vs. Apologise If the athlete wants to rejoin the team, he must apologise for his poor attitude. Shouldn’t the above sentence have different spellings of apologize that it, with a z instead of s? Apologize and apo… |
| Resign vs. Re-sign Do you intend to re-sign the employment contract? Susan had resolved to resign from her position. Notice the above two sentences. Did you understand the meanings of resign and re-sign from them? If n… |
| Strive vs. Stride vs. Strife Stride Stride is a verb that means to take a careful step towards an aim, or to cross even difficult obstacles in a positive manner. The word originated from old English stride meaning ‘single long s… |
| mendacious - vocabulary adjective Untrue, false; habitually telling lies, dishonest. For the last week, I've been intimately involved with Jack Nicholson. He's both a charmer and a cliché. Passionate about truth in his a… |
| militate, mitigate - vocabulary verb Militate: to influence strongly. The word militate is intransitive and is usually accompanied by the preposition against. For if it happened that an individual, even when asl… |
| misanthropic - vocabulary adjective Characterized by a mistrustful scorn or hatred of humankind; having a sneering disbelief in humankind. Note: The noun misanthrope (a person) is a hater of humankind. … |
| obsequious - vocabulary adjective Showing a servile or fawning readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another; overly deferential. What guest at Dives’s table can pass the familiar house without a sigh?—the fami… |
| obstreperous - vocabulary adjective Resisting restraint or control in a difficult manner; unruly; boisterous, noisy, clamorous. A lunatic may be “soothed,”... for a time, but in the end, he is very apt to become ob… |
| ostracize - vocabulary verb To exclude, by general agreement, from friendship, society, conversation, or privileges, as in His friends ostracized him after the scandal broke. Even after this skirmish, Democrats are unli… |
| 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… |
| patronize - vocabulary verb To give a store or business one’s regular patronage; to trade with; to behave in an offensively condescending way. “Of course,” his mother persevered, “some of the programs are not very good,… |
| pecuniary - vocabulary adjective Of or relating to money. No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right o… |
| pedantic - vocabulary adjective Ostentatious in one’s learning; characterized by a detailed, often ostentatious, attention to formalisms, especially in teaching. Here, Nabokov's aristocratic dilettantism is perfect, be… |
| petulant - vocabulary adjective Showing sudden or impatient irritation, especially over something trifling; irritable, peevish, fretful, petty. The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of pe… |
| precedence, precedent, precedential - vocabulary noun Precedence: the fact or act of preceding, as in The first patent application receives precedence in Europe; priority in place, time, or rank because of superiority, as in The… |
