Vocabulary

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   In the modern age of technology, computers, and communication via social media, there’s a host of ways to tell someone to contact you. “Ping me” is one such phrase. It specifically indicates that you want someone to send you a text, email or some other internet-enabled communication […]

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   In English, people will talk about their families and reference several words to indicate the number and type of people with whom they share a relation. When you want to speak about brothers and sisters, you would use the word “siblings.” Siblings are brothers and/or sisters who

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   Both of these phrases are correct, but only one of them can be used to form a question. When we want to ask how something works, we say, how does it work? When we want to answer this question, we say, how it works is like this…

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   Both intelligent and intellectual are adjectives used to describe people who are very smart. However, these words are used to describe different ways that people are smart. You can avoid not sounding intelligent by understanding the difference between these two terms and knowing when to use each

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   “Thus” and “hence” have essentially identical meanings, and are often used interchangeably— however, there are subtle differences in their usage regarding time. “Thus” is typically used when making reference to the past, whereas “hence” is generally used when referring to the future. English grammar has a number

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   The difference between steps and stairs is that stairs (or a stairway) are a structure made up of individual steps, and the steps are the individual “risers” that we use to move up the stairway. The words are closely connected because they both refer to something we

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   Whereas is considered a transition word, referred to as a conjunction, and it can be used at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence. Many people assume that a conjunction can only be used to combine two separate sentences, but some can be used in

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   “Annunciate” and “enunciate” sound almost identical when you say the words out loud, but what is the difference between the two words? While annunciate comes from an old French root word which means to announce, enunciate is a word that means to articulate or clearly pronounce the

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   There is a difference between having a passion for something and compassion for something. To have passion for something that you care about in terms of how it affects you and your life. To have compassion for something means that you care about how the thing is

Practice English or Spanish with AI here   Although ‘tough” and “though” may look like similar words, they have two completely different meanings. Whereas “tough” means that something is durable, steadfast, or withstanding, “though” is a way of saying that something has happened in spite of something else. “H” is the only visual difference between