Usage: - We paddled alternately so neither of us would get too tired.
Alternatively: - means "as an option"
Usage: - Instead of going by train, we could have gone alternatively by car.
2) Advice: - a noun meaning "an opinion given with the intention of helping"
Usage: - My mother still gives me advice even though I'm 40 years old.
Advise: - a verb meaning "to give counsel or advice"
Usage: - The meteorologist advised listeners to stay indoors because of the extremely cold temperatures.
3) Ascent: -an upward movement
Usage: -Leo's ascent to the presidency of the company came slowly.
Assent: - means "to agree to"
Usage: -Greta could not begin the project unless management assented.
4) Ascribe: -means "to attribute to"
Usage: - She ascribed her feelings of jealousy to insecurity.
Describe: - means "to show what something is by drawing a picture with words"
Usage: -Describe in detail what the man looked like.
5) Beside: - means "next to"
Usage: -Place the dishes beside the sink.
Besides: - is an adverb or preposition that means "also, additionally"
Usage: -I would enjoy going on a vacation besides.
6) Conscience: -the feeling or knowledge of right and wrong:
Usage: -My conscience wouldn't allow me to compete with someone so much weaker than me.
Conscious: -to being awake and aware
Usage: - Molly Coddle was still conscious after banging her head on the headboard.
7) Deduction: -drawing a general principle from particular facts or instances
Usage: -I've seen hundreds of robins and they all have red breasts. (General principle-all robins have red breasts.)
Induction: - is the explanation of particular facts or instances from a general principle
Usage: -That bird must be a robin because it has a red breast. (General principle-all robins have red breasts.)
8) Explicit: -means "clear and direct"
Usage: -Please give me explicit directions.
Implicit: -means "indirectly, with some parts understood"
Usage: -They implicitly agreed to never talk on the subject again.
9) Gibe: -"to taunt, jeer, make fun of"
Usage: -His classmates gibed Billy Earl for wearing funny clothes.
Gybe: - "to swing a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailboat to the other to change course"
Usage: -When the wind shifted, Felix gybed when he should have tacked.
Jibe: -being in agreement
Usage: -Our views on everything from baseball to Socrates seem to jibe.
10) Hoard: -"to collect and keep for oneself"
Usage: -Squirrels hoard acorns during the winter.
Horde: -a large group
Usage: -Hordes of people go Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving.
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