Advanced Vocabulary Words: Impertinence to Keen
Six of the nine words in this stretch begin with the same two letters, which makes them look like one problem. They are actually two problems wearing the same coat. The Latin prefix in- does two completely different jobs in English, and one word in this group uses the job almost nobody notices. There is […]
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 […]
