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How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions

How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions

Elster, Charles Harrington

Paperback

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasGeneral ReferenceThesauri

ISBN10: 1328884074
ISBN13: 9781328884077
Publisher: Collins Reference
Published: Oct 23 2018
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear--How to Tell Fate from Destiny is here to help! With more than 500 headwords, the book is replete with advice on how to differentiate commonly confused words and steer clear of verbal trouble.

Whether you're a boomer, a Gen-Xer, or a millennial, if you peruse, browse, or even skim these spindrift pages you will (not shall) become versed in the fine art of differentiation. You will learn, for example,

] how to tell whether you suffer from pride, vanity, or hubris

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