Words for Risk, Cause, and Result
Any account of something going wrong follows the same chain. A harmful condition appears, someone tries to head it off, the situation improves or gets worse, and afterward the damage is either absorbed or it is not. English has a precise word for every link. Adverse, avert, consequence, necessary, exacerbate, and resilient name those links […]
Words for Quantity, Time, Description, and Place
A shipment arrives with 400 batteries for a job that needs 20. Is that supply ample, sufficient, excessive, or expensive? Three of those words are about amount and one is about cost, and only one of the three amount words carries the criticism the sentence is making. Words about quantity, time, description, and place are […]