Questions with "agreement", overwhelm, incentive and incessant?

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Can you explain this sentences:

1. The policy is in harmony with the traditional custom/doctrine.
(In what ways: can you provide a small example with explanation)

2. Don't get overwhelmed, get organized.

(Does it mean like "don't get crazy with the overload and be disorganized" or "don't get stuck with myriad problems with no track that you cannot deal with; instead, get organized"?)

3. Are incessant, constant, continuous all interchangeable?

4. Are "incentive" and "motivation" different?

Avangi · Accepted Answer

TrunksCan you explain this sentences:

1. The policy is in harmony with the traditional custom/doctrine.
(In what ways: can you provide a small example with explanation)

A policy would be some kind of rule or regulation - a way of dealing with a particular kind of situation.
Traditional custom/doctrine would be primary, in the sense that they were there first (before the policy).
You could consider harmony here to the the absence of dissonance. The policy does not create a conflict with traditional ways of doing things.
Harmony is often a euphamism, as in "the downward harmonization of wages."

2. Don't get overwhelmed, get organized.

(Does it mean like "don't get crazy with the overload and be disorganized" or "don't get stuck with myriad problems with no track that you cannot deal with; instead, get organized"?) Yes.

3. Are incessant, constant, continuous all interchangeable? In many situations.

4. Are "incentive" and "motivation" different? Yes, but they may have the same objective.
An incentive is usually thought of as external - something which is given to someone to encourage them to do something. It's usually countable.
Motivation is often internal. It can refer to the drive which you personally have to do something. It's usually uncountable.
There's some crossover in meaning, where "incentive" is used as an uncountable and "motivation" is used as a countable (the external thing which makes you do it).

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