Dictionary of Fine Distinctions merits study at your leisure. Burnstein describes his little volume as “Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning.

Learn activities for 3rd grade English Language Arts to prepare them for school. ... Explain the differences in shades of meaning among related words (knew, believed, suspected) ...

What is the difference between grammar and syntax? Between restive and restless? Envy and jealousy? Kitsch and camp?

When Daniel, the 25-year-old protagonist in Johnny G. Lloyd’s “Patience,” introduces himself as “the current reigning world solitaire champion,” he isn’t using a metaphor to describe his sense of ...

Interview: Shades of meaning. 27 June 2007 In 1969, anthropologist Brent Berlin and linguist Paul Kay controversially proposed that all cultures recognise two basic ...