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What is the difference between sensitive and sensible?
Sensitive = emotional, easily hurt, or skin sensitivity.
Sensible = reasonable, somebody who does not do foolish things.
What is the difference between prescription, receipt and recipe?
Prescription is prescribed by doctors, medical prescription
Receipt – what we get at a store after we buy something
Recipe – list of ingredients and instructions on how to prepare a dish
What is the difference between flammable and inflammable?
There is no difference. Both mean to be capable of being easily ignited and of burning quickly.
What is the difference between empathize and sympathize?
sympathize with a friend in trouble – feel for someone who is in a difficult situation
empathize = the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to other people
What is the difference between imply and infer?
You infer from what I imply i.e. you understand what I said indirectly.
What is the difference between LIE, LIE, LAY
LIE – not tell the truth, regular verb
Lied, lied, lied, lying
LIE – be in horizontal position, irregular verb
Lie, lay, lain, lying
I was lying on the sunbed when my coffee arrived.
I lay back and watched an interesting movie.
I have never lain in sun for more than 15 minutes.
LAY – put something somewhere, irregular verb
Lay, laid, laid, laying
She laid the table before we sat down to have dinner.
What are 4 synonyms of the word SELFISH?
tight-fisted, scrooge, miser, mean
What are 3 synonyms of the word HAPPY?
high-spirited, joyful, joyous
What are 3 synonyms of the word QUICK-TEMPERED?
short-fused, hot-headed, irascible
What are 3 synonyms of the word SHY?
timid, taciturn, a wall-flower
What is the synonym of RESPONSIBLE?
What is mutual for: patient, perfect, polite?
CONSCIENTIOUS
Negative prefix –IM.
What does conspicuous consumption mean?
To buy labeled clothes and expensive items with the intention to show off and display your social status.
CONSPICUOUS means easily noticeable, something that stands out.
What is the difference between rise and raise?
Rise (rise, rose, risen) does not have an object, raise, which is a regular verb, does. To raise children.
Word formation of the word: CLEAR
Clarity (n), clarify (v), clarification (n), clarified (adj), clearance (n)
How do you say to perform in the street?