Would a good friend be decent, descent, or dissent? When you show respect to someone, are you being deferential or differential? Does a bomb need to be defused or diffused? If a town is filled with corruption, is it full of depravation or deprivation?
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decease, disease
Decease is the act of dying or departing from life. It is death.
The sad decease of her mother haunted her for many, many years.
A disease is a sickness or an illness.
The infectious disease wiped out the entire village in just two weeks.
decent, descent, dissent
If someone is decent, this person will be respectable, fair, modest, etc. If something is decent, it will be fair or appropriate.
Your case will be appearing before a decent judge who is known for his just verdicts.
Descent is the act of going from a higher position to a lower position.
She ran to see how fast her descent would be from the top floor of the building to the basement.
Dissent means to disagree or not give your opinion in a matter. It is a disagreement or difference of opinion.
Keisha found that her dissent was not welcome in the class.
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deferential, differential
Deferential means showing respect.
A good, honest book review is deferential to the author.
Differential means pertaining to a difference.
Differential opinions can tear relationships apart.
defuse, diffuse
When you defuse something, you make it less dangerous, tense, or embarrassing.
Because of the counselor’s ability to defuse potentially lethal situations between students, everyone was sad when she moved far away.
Diffuse means tospread evenly.
The light painted an eerie picture as it diffused through the trees.
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dependence, dependents
Dependence is reliance, confidence, and trust.
Her dependence on electricity to do everything left her unprepared for the power outage that lasted several weeks.
Dependents are those who depend upon someone else, such as young children depend upon their parents.
The Harrisons claimed four dependents on their income tax return.
depositary, depository
A depositary is one to whom something is given in trust.
Melinda used her grandmother as her depositary so she wouldn’t have to trust the safekeeping of her money to a bank.
A depository is a place where something is put for safekeeping.
Most banks have a night depository.
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depravation,deprivation
Depravation is corruption.
The small town in the hills of Kentucky was overflowing with depravation.
Deprivation is loss.
The deprivation of water is what killed the hostages.
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