CAT and IIFT also have started asking some notorious words, like today in IIFT paper there was one question about “prophecy/prophesy“. So you need a good practice to win over such questions. So there is one free solution to it - Paul Brain’s Common Errors in English Usage. Now you can download the text version [...]
Childish is used negatively to criticize behavior that one does not want to see in adults. Childlike, on the other hand, is used either as a positive or neutral evaluation. Here’s a quote from somewhere that may help to explain:
“To advertising writers, connotation is a matter of life or death. There isn’t an ad agency [...]
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Many a times we get confused with how to use a particular word in a sentence. So today I have find one online tool in which you enter a word (only English language) and it seeks in some random books for the example sentences which do contain that word. Since [...]
flammable or inflammable? Although inflammable looks like the opposite of flammable, the two words actually have the same meaning, both describing something that is easily set on fire. The in- prefix of inflammable means “into,” rather than “not,” and the adjective is ultimately derived from the same Latin word as the verb inflame. In view [...]
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Got one more interested couple. They look so similar that you need to concentrate on them for atleast 2 seconds to know where they differ. Yes, they differ at ‘a’ and ‘e’.
BTW,
DUAL: connotated two, twice etc.
whereas
DUEL: is a formal battle intended to settle a dispute.
Click them to see the dictionary meaning.
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