Confusing words
- Amazon (n): female warrior
- Application (n): diligent attention
- August (adj): impressive; majestic
Syn: Majestic, Palatial, Stately, Splendid, Magnificient
Use: visiting the palace at Versailles, she was impressed by the august surrounding in which she found herself.
- Buffet (v): slap; batter; knack about
- Cataract (n): great waterfall
- Compact (n): agreement, contract
- Amorous (adj): openly showing or feeling love; relating to sexual love.
Use: love them and leave them, is the motto of the amorous boys.
- Platonic: (of love or a friendship between two people) close and deep but not sexual.
a platonic relationship
- Chaste (adj): not having sex except with the person to whom one is married.
Use: to ensure that his bride would stay chaste while he is off to the wars, the crusader had her fitted with a chastity belt.
: Not having had sex with anyone; pure, virgin.
- Celibate (adj): not married, esp. for religious reasons.
: Not having sexual relation
use: she decided to adopt a celibate lifestyle.
Celibacy (n): the state of not being married or of not having sexual relationships; esp. for a long time.
Use: catholic priests take a vow of celibacy.
Quote: Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures (Samuel Johnson).
