Words for Work, Society, Science, and Health
Culture in a sociology reading is a set of shared customs and beliefs. Culture in a lab report is a population of microorganisms grown for study. Same spelling, same dictionary entry, entirely different subject. The word did not change; the setting selected which of its meanings was switched on. That is the whole trick with […]
Words for Work and Performance
Praise a worker in English and you must choose what you are praising. Skill, effort, and economy are three different things, and a word that fits one of them can be badly wrong for the others. Adept, diligent, efficient, inept, proficient, and rigorous cover the range. Two of them rate ability, one rates persistence, one […]