essential, quintessential
portmanteau
hendiatris
If you search for ‘hendiatris’ on the Internet, you will find it easily, but if you search for it in a traditional dictionary, you probably won’t. It is possible that ‘hendiatris’ is a sort of back-formation from ‘hendiadys’, though it substitutes an affix rather than deleting one.
forward, foreword
hendiadys
conscious, conscience
Today’s muddle consists of an adjective and a verb. Those parts of speech do different things; they are not interchangeable.
plumb, plum
As always, my explanations for Monday Muddle do not include every possible definition—only the ones that I frequently see being mixed up. Today’s post includes nothing about pipefitting.
eponym
advice, advise
I’ve advised you about this muddle before, but since I’ve seen it several times in the last few days, I thought I would share this advice again.