An axle is a pin or shaft on (or with which) a wheel or pair of wheels revolves. The centers of the wheels are connected ….
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Not long ago I thought awhile about taking a while to pen this article. Let’s face it. The differences between awhile and a while can ….
If you seek vengeance, you aim to avenge wrongs, not revenge wrongs. “Avenge” is a transitive verb that means to take vengeance for, or on ….
“Attain” means “to reach,” and “obtain” means “to gain.” “Attain” is a transitive verb that means “to reach,” as an end or “to come to,” ….
Dear Weeping Editor, I have seen your articles on sound, smell, touch, and taste but I haven’t seen you talk about the sense of sight. ….
Afterward Afterward is an adverb meaning at a later or succeeding time, subsequently, or thereafter. Afterward without an “-s” on the end is the US spelling ….
Assent refers to agreement, while an ascent is a climb. When you get people to agree with you, you gain their assent. When you climb ….
I often encounter phrases like “as time progressed” or “as the hours progressed” in submissions. You may be familiar with the idiom, “Time marches on.” ….
I recently judged an unpublished novel contest. I had an array of genres, but one thing that stood out consistently throughout all of them was a lack of realistic dialogue.
Arrant means being notoriously without moderation or extreme. Arrant was originally a variant of errant, but it developed a meaning of its own before any ….