Category: Words

Sac, Sack, Cul-de-Sac   Are you afraid of being sacked by your employer? It would be a freedom, you can launch your own career, independently, without ever being sacked! ‘Be your own lamp’ –Buddha   Employees in private sector also…

Refute, Repudiate (but not Refudiate!)   Refudiate is a non-existent word but sprang into public domain (cyberspace) because of Sarah Palin the former Governor of Alaska and the vice-presidential candidate of Republican Party in the 2008 US presidential elections. She…

Quarry, Query, Quandary   A practicing believer in a faith or religion can have queries on Bible, Bhagavad Gita or Quran (the holy books or scriptures).   QUARRY: Quarry is a form of surface excavation for taking out stone, slate,…

What is the opposite word for postpone? Postpone means to arrange something such as a celebration, an event, an occasion, etcetera at a later time. Postpone means to defer: The UK postponed the formal exit from the European Union to…

Ordinance, Ordnance Government can issue an ordinance to set up ordnance factories. Do the subjects have the power to stop the ordinance or the ordnance factory?   ORDINANCE: Ordinance is a decree.   Ordinance is an order; a command that…

Noose, Nose, Nous   “Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.” –Jean Toomer   ‘…The hangman prepares the noose around the prisoner but he tricks the hangman in such a way that it (noose) got stuck at his…

Marital, Martial, Marshal/Marshall   Military officers can be court-martialed or court-marshaled? Court-martialed! Marital harmony may be far challenging to accomplish than acquiring martial skills, do you agree?   MARITAL: Marital is an adjective: of or relating to the marriage, relating…

Leap, Leaped/Leapt/Lept, Leap Year   “My mother’s family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to…

Kind, Kinder, Kindle, Kindred   “We became beasts. There was not a human being left in China. We were worse than beasts. At least beasts do not slaughter their own kind.” –Lo Yiren commenting on Mao’s rule in China  …

Jab, Jabberer, Jamb   People also jabber by leaning on their doorjambs or sitting in a Jacuzzi: Jacuzzi is a whirlpool bath, and a trademark named after its inventors, Roy and Candido Jacuzzi.   Governments, and medical experts recommends people…