This document provides definitions and distinguishes between similar words including:
- Lose and loose
- Lone and alone
- Raise and rise
- Include and consist of
- Present and actual
- Lie and lay
- Economic and economical
- Historic and historical
- Occasion and opportunity
- Continuous and continual
- Conscious and conscientious
- Successor and reverse
- Winding and tedious
- Convoy and collision
- Cliff and glacier
- Iceberg and drought
- Melt and pond
- Stream and seabed
- Tip and debris
- Sewage and gyre
- Oilfield and landfill
- Foodchain and ice cup
This document provides definitions and distinguishes between similar words including:
- Lose and loose
- Lone and alone
- Raise and rise
- Include and consist of
- Present and actual
- Lie and lay
- Economic and economical
- Historic and historical
- Occasion and opportunity
- Continuous and continual
- Conscious and conscientious
- Successor and reverse
- Winding and tedious
- Convoy and collision
- Cliff and glacier
- Iceberg and drought
- Melt and pond
- Stream and seabed
- Tip and debris
- Sewage and gyre
- Oilfield and landfill
- Foodchain and ice cup
This document provides definitions and distinguishes between similar words including:
- Lose and loose
- Lone and alone
- Raise and rise
- Include and consist of
- Present and actual
- Lie and lay
- Economic and economical
- Historic and historical
- Occasion and opportunity
- Continuous and continual
- Conscious and conscientious
- Successor and reverse
- Winding and tedious
- Convoy and collision
- Cliff and glacier
- Iceberg and drought
- Melt and pond
- Stream and seabed
- Tip and debris
- Sewage and gyre
- Oilfield and landfill
- Foodchain and ice cup
lone, alone – having no companions lonely – feeling sad Raise – increase Rise – move from a lower to a higher place Arise – come into being Include – be a part of a whole Consist of – have as the main part Comprise the same but more formal Present – existing now Actual – existing in fact Lie – the subject is setting itself down Lay – to set something down Lie – not tell the truth Economic – describes anything related to economy Economical – avoiding waste Historic – important and famous moments in history Historical – general term for describing history Occasion – a particular event or time Opportunity – circumstance that is favorable for you to get what you want Continous – Continouing without interruption Continual – occuring at regular intervals Conscious – alert, awake Conscientious – thorough, careful to work properly Succesor- a person who comes after another person Reverse – backwards Winding – turning repeateadly in different directions Tedious – tiring, monotonous Convoy – a group of vehicles traveling together Collision – a situation when a moving object strikes violently against another one Cliff – a vertical rock Glacier – a large body of ice which floats under its own mass Iceberg – a large body of ice detached from a glacier Drought – a long period without rain Melt – turn into water Pond – body of standing water Stream – a small river, a large creek Seabed – the ground under the sea Tip – an area where people throw away no longer usefull things Debris – scattered pieces of rubish Sewage – waste water and human waste from buildings Gyre – whirl Oilfield – an area under the Earths surface where there is a large amount of oil Landfill – the procces of getting rid of large amounts of trash by burrying it Foodchain – a series of organisms each dependent on the next as the source of food Ice cup – a covering of ice over a large area, especially polar.