English Synonyms and Confusing Words Explained
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Artist vs. Artiste
Artist: Someone who paints, draws, or makes sculptures.
Artiste: A skilled performer, especially a dancer, singer, or actor.
Resume vs. Summarize
To resume: If an activity resumes, or if you resume it, it starts again after a pause.
To summarize: To express the most important facts or ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form.
House vs. Inhabit
To house: A building that people, usually one family, live in.
To inhabit: To live in a place.
Talk, Converse, and Chat
To talk: To say words aloud; to speak to someone.
To converse: To have a conversation with someone.
To chat: To talk to someone in a friendly, informal way.
Hollow vs. Void
Hollow: Having a hole or empty space inside.
Void: A large hole or empty space.
Balance vs. Poise
Balance: A state where things are of equal weight or force.
Poise: Calm confidence in a person's way of behaving, or a quality of grace (= moving in an attractive way) and balance in the way a person holds or moves their body.
Heritage vs. Inheritance
Heritage: Features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance.
Inheritance: Money or objects that someone gives you when they die.
Safety vs. Security
Safety: A state in which or a place where you are safe and not in danger or at risk.
Security: Protection of a person, building, organization, or country against threats such as crime or attacks by foreign countries.
Easy vs. Facile
Facile: Describes a remark or theory that is too simple and has not been thought about enough: as much as is necessary; in the amount or to the degree needed.
Loneliness vs. Solitude
Loneliness: The state of being lonely.
Solitude: The situation of being alone without other people in a comfortable way.
Replace vs. Substitute
To replace: To take the place of something, or to put something or someone in the place of something or someone else.
To substitute: To use something or someone instead of another thing or person.
Deep vs. Profound
Deep: Going or being a long way down from the top or surface, or being of a particular distance from the top to the bottom.
Profound: Felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way.
Guilty vs. Culpable
Culpable: Deserving to be blamed or considered responsible for something bad.
Clever, Intelligent, Keen, Smart, and Brainy
Clever: Having or showing the ability to learn and understand things quickly and easily.
Intelligent: Showing intelligence, or able to learn and understand things easily.
Keen: Very interested, eager, or wanting (to do) something very much.
Smart: Intelligent, or able to think quickly or cleverly in difficult situations.
Brainy: Clever.
Look, Glance, and Stare
Look: To direct your eyes in order to see.
Stare: To look for a long time with the eyes wide open, especially when surprised, frightened, or thinking.