Words you think are synonyms but aren’t

When something is obsolete, it’s out-of-date or out of use; if it’s obsolescent, it’s in the process of becoming out-of-date or out of use. So what is obsolescent today may well be obsolete tomorrow.

Hopefully, these obsolescent words will never become obsolete.

When you do something bad, should you feel guilt? Or should you feel shame? According to this study of psychological terms that people often get wrong, shame is a global negative evaluation of the self in the wake of a behaviour,” whereas “guilt is a specific negative evaluation of the behaviour, itself.” (As in, “I did a bad thing.”) Therefore, as Pepperdine University Professor Steven Sultanoff, PhD puts it, with shame, you think, “I did something bad, which makes me a bad person,” but with guilt, you think, “I did something bad, but I’m still a good person.”

“Amicable” refers to a friendliness or goodwill between people or groups. “Amiable” refers to one person’s friendly disposition. A group might have an amicable meeting, because the people there are amiable.

Both of these words involve a prediction of future events. However, expecting something to happen is not the same as anticipating it will happen. When we expect something, it reflects our state of mind. When we anticipate something, we are already preparing for what we expect will happen.

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Source: RD.com