“A.D.” does not mean “after death,” as many people suppose. “B.C.” stands for the English phrase “before Christ,” but “A.D.” perhaps confusingly stands for the ….
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Aural only ever refers to the ear or hearing, and oral only ever refers to the mouth or speaking. Something verbal is something expressed in ….
Assent refers to agreement, while an ascent is a climb. An ascent is most often a physical climb up something, like your ascent up a ….
If you are amoral, you’re not a jerk, you just don’t know that what you’re doing is wrong. The word was invented rather recently by ….
Amicable refers to the connections between plural people or things, like a friendly situation with a crowd or countless trees. Take out the C for ….
Adieu is a French word meaning “goodbye” that is commonly used in English, especially in the phrase “I bid you adieu!” Au revoir is also ….
WARNING: This article deals factually with gender and sex and could trigger those who adhere to “identity politics.” You can correctly say, “I transferred the ….
You would think an article on the articles (see what I did there?) “a” and “an” would be a quickie. You would be mistaken. Consonant ….
Either bald-faced or barefaced both with beginning with the letters BA means shameless or showing no guilt. The adjective barefaced means “beardless,” and one theory ….
As an English noun, these originally French words kept those two gender specific forms; thus, a blond is a fair-haired man, and a blonde is ….