Word Confusion: Endurance versus Stamina
Endurance is doing something at normal or low intensity while stamina is how long a person can do something at maximum effort in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Endurance is doing something at normal or low intensity while stamina is how long a person can do something at maximum effort in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Stuff and things are the same, EXCEPT that stuff can’t be counted and things CAN be counted in this Word Confusion from KD Did it.
An artist and an artiste are similar in that both are skilled in the arts or in an occupation, although the first also has a reprehensible “career” in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
A home and a house are both places where people live, yet a home is where you live and a house is where people live in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Both accord and accordance are nouns (accord is also a verb). Accord is an agreement between two or more while accordance is more about conformity in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Although pleat evolved from plait, today’s distinction is that plait is a braid while pleat is a textile folded back upon itself in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
In general, an evacuation involves moving a lot of people while an extraction involves a group going in to get a few people in this Word Confusion.
Arose, arouse, and rouse can all wake up. And arose just keeps on getting up in so many ways. Arouse and rouse can both get you excited and emotional, but only rouse parties, drinks, and hauls vigorously in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
As adverbs, forward and forwards are interchangeable in this Word Confusion. The distinctions come when using the first as an adjective and verb and both are their own nouns.
A rivulet, a runnel, and a sike are all small streams, streamlets. However, a sike is a regional term in Scotland and Northern England in this Word Confusion.