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| 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 … |
| apostasy, apostate - vocabulary apostasy, apostate - noun Apostasy: a total departure from one’s religious, political, or personal beliefs and principles. Apostate: a person who… |
| askance - vocabulary askance - adverb Usually describes the act of looking or glancing; with suspicion or mistrust, as in He looked askance at his boss, who seemed to bring bad tidings. “Do you suppose h… |
| assiduous - vocabulary assiduous - adjective Constant or unremitting activity, as in assiduous exercise; constant in application or effort; diligent or persevering, as in an assiduous medical student. Call… |
| Credible vs. Creditable Talk about words that can be confused easily … creditable and credible are a prime example. While they sound alike, and their meanings come close, they are two completely separate terms with de… |
| Allude vs. Elude He eluded to the problem but did not mention it. The thief alluded the police. Can you spot the mistake in the above two sentences? Take a minute to read both sentences carefully and see if you can f… |
| Principal vs. Principle Our principal made it compulsory to follow all school principles.Principal and principle are a pair of words that are called homophone, meaning they have same pronunciation but very different meaning… |
| 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… |
| prescience, prescient - vocabulary noun Prescience: knowledge of events before they take place. adjective Prescient: perceiving significance of events before they take place. Note:… |
| privity, privy - vocabulary noun Privity: knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter. In law, a relationship between or among parties, typically to a contract. Privy: |
| probity - vocabulary noun Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed; honesty; the trait of having strong moral principles. Once regarded as the model of probity, Mayor Bradley, now 71 years old, is und… |
| Pain vs. Pane Pain vs. Pane The first thing to remember regarding the differences between "pain" and "pane" is their grammatical functions, which are distinct. "Pain" can function both as a verb and as a noun in a… |
| Moat vs. Mote There are millions of tiny dust motes in the air. He fell in the moat around the castle. Consider the two sentences above and try to figure out what moat and mote mean from their respective sentences… |
