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Jeffery216 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Any suggestion of learning some similar words / vocabularies?

Hi All, I am reading some books to expand my English vocabulary and improve the understanding on the language, but sometimes facing the difficulty on the usage of some similar words, like:-
Compelling / Eloquent (Both are adj)
Perspective / Perception (Both are noun)

(I am Hong Kong-er, most likely I learn and recognize the meaning in Chinese)

Both words are adj & noun with similar meaning (I use online Cambridge Dictionary), are those words just differences between business, causal, polite and impolite form or something else or I totally get the wrong meaning of them?

Any suggestion to learn those similar word efficiently and correctly?

  

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You should look up a word in different dictionaries. At least, it works for me. Beside Cambridge, try using Oxford, Macmillan, Longman, Free Dictionary etc.

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  • Beside Cambridge, try using Oxford, Macmillan, Longman, Free Dictionary etc.
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You should look up a word in different dictionaries. At least, it works for me. Beside Cambridge, try using Oxford, Macmillan, Longman, Free Dictionary etc. as well and pay close attention to the example sentences they provide. These dictionaries give also information on the word's register(whether it is formal or informal or slang), whether it's a technical term (used in economics/law/ scienc

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It is impossible for me to think of all the ways two words differ in use and meaning. It took a lifetime of reading and listening to arrive at whatever understanding I have. If you were to write a few sentences using the words you wonder about, I could say why one word is better than another in that context, and how they differ.

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"compelling" means strongly persuasive or exciting very strong interest; "eloquent" means fluently expressed, and perhaps (depending on context) implying persuasive as a result of this.

"perspective" and "perception" have various shades of meaning, as you will see in the dictionary. I suppose that the meanings approach each other most closely in the more abstract uses, e.g. when you are

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