Advanced Vocabulary Words: Gauche to Illustrious
This is the slice where two words differ by a single letter and mean genuinely different things. Illusive and elusive get swapped constantly, including by careful writers, and the reason turns out to be that they really are cousins. Sorting that pair out is worth more than memorizing the other nine definitions. Around that pair […]
Advanced Vocabulary Words: Fantastic to Garrison
This stretch of the alphabet is unusually practical. Four of the ten words show up constantly in budget documents, contracts, and safety rules, and three of those four are built on Latin roots you can use to decode dozens of other words. Two more are about things that look real and are not. The rest […]
