If you see a sign for “Tutoring”, someone is offering to help you with your academic pursuits. If you see a sign for “Tutoring”, that could possibly be an offer for historical reenactments or house renovations.
Monday Muddle: Tudor, tutor
Tag: #words
Monday Muddle: wary, weary
If you are weary of a situation, you are tired of it. You want to be done with it. If you are wary of a situation, you are paying close attention.
Monday Muddle: exacerbate, exasperate
You exacerbate a situation, and you exasperate a person–potentially because you exacerbated a situation.
Monday Muddle: backlist, backlog
It is better for an author to create a backlist than to create a backlog.
Monday Muddle: lyre, liar
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Monday Muddle: wit, whit
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Monday Muddle: conscious, conscience
The noun form of the adjective conscious is consciousness. That is what you would regain if you had been asleep, knocked out, or in a coma. Hopefully you will never lose your conscience, and therefore you won’t need to regain it.
Monday Muddle: peel, peal
Monday Muddle: apart, a part
These terms are basically opposites of each other. One means not together; the other indicates that it goes together with at least one additional part. If you are including either term in love notes to your sweetheart, you are going to want to get it right.
Memory Tip: The term without a space–where the letters are all together–is the one that means not together.
Monday Muddle: absence, absenteeism
