Words for Agreement, Conflict, Power, and Law
A board can authorize a license, mandate an inspection, enforce a rule, exempt a small operator from it, or revoke a permit that already exists. Those are five different acts by the same body, and the difference between them is not a matter of shading. Confuse revoke with suspend and you have described a permanent […]
Words for Actions, Movement, and Change
Here is a sentence that separates careful readers from fast ones: “To conserve fuel, the unit curtailed nighttime driving but did not stop it entirely.” Four verbs might look plausible as a replacement for curtailed — prohibited, postponed, redirected, reduced. Only one of them survives the second half of the sentence. Verbs about action and […]
