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It’s time for “Confusing Words of the Week” where I take a set of two or three words that get confused and give you definitions and try to give you a memory trick to help you remember when to use which word. If you have words that confuse you, use the Ask PTB tab on the website or send an email to [email protected] and they may appear here soon!

This week’s words are:

• anxious – desirous, but also implies fear or concern
  • He was anxious to get the results of the lab work.
• eager – desirous
  • She was eager to go on the girls’ weekend.

Memory tips:

• Since the words have pretty much the same definition, but anxious implies fear or concern, I would associate the “x” in anxious with a sign to avoid something because of fear or concern.

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It’s time for “Confusing Words of the Week” where I take a set of two or three words that get confused and give you definitions and try to give you a memory trick to help you remember when to use which word. If you have words that confuse you, use the Ask PTB tab on the website or send an email to [email protected] and they may appear here soon!

This week’s words are:

• magnet – something that attracts
  • The chocolate cake in the kitchen was a magnet for the dieters.
• magnate – someone of high rank
  • He appeared to be a business magnate with his fancy car and nice suits.

Memory tips:

• magnet – a “net” to attract
• magnate – this person could have reached such a high rank by what they “ate” along the way

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It’s time for “Confusing Words of the Week” where I take a set of two or three words that get confused and give you definitions and try to give you a memory trick to help you remember when to use which word. If you have words that confuse you, use the Ask PTB tab on the website or send an email to [email protected] and they may appear here soon!

This week’s words are:

Through – by means of; from beginning to end; because of

• John read the report through multiple times.

Threw – did throw

• Sally threw her laundry in the washer before she left this morning.

Thorough – exhaustive

• The report was a thorough summary of the upcoming changes.

Memory tips:

Through – like building a trough, you are going through something

Threw – past tense of throw so just change one letter

Thorough – think of it as more cOmplete so it contains the extra O

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