Confused words. 2014.
adapt / adept / adopt — Adapt means to adjust : Minnie Miles quickly adapted to working 20 miles away from home. Adept means skilled : Lucille is adept at speaking languages. Adopt means to accept as your own : It was difficult to adopt only one puppy from the… … Confused words
adapt / adept / adopt — Adapt means to adjust : Minnie Miles quickly adapted to working 20 miles away from home. Adept means skilled : Lucille is adept at speaking languages. Adopt means to accept as your own : It was difficult to adopt only one puppy from the… … Confused words
adapt, adept, adopt — To adapt is to adjust, to make suitable. Note the second syllable (dapt), which resembles apt, meaning fit or suited to the purpose. Adept has something of the meaning of apt ( skilled, proficient ): one can say Bob was apt in science or Bob was… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
adept — See adapt. See adapt, adept, adopt … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
adopt — See adapt. See adapt, adept, adopt … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
adapt — See adapt, adept, adopt … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… … Universalium
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international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… … Universalium
human behaviour — Introduction the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life. Human beings, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of… … Universalium
