Confusing words – part 43
A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
The road was little-trafficked, though cars tended to past at alarming speeds.
I'm trying to be patient, but my confidence is low and that is a hard to overcome.
Throwing the glass vase against the wall will cause pieces of it to in random directions.
They say he can as well - and run a decent 200m.
INTENSE / INTENT
I've tried persuading her not to go but she's intentintense on it.
They rushed to the blazing aircraft, but were forced back by the intentintense heat.’
The same eyes were looking at me, almost burning me with their intentintense gaze.
He's intentintense and serious about the work, but sometimes he'll go off on a comic riff.
KNIGHT / NIGHT
He hopes to be made a knightnight for his work at the Bank of England.
The knightsnights of King Arthur were at his service day and knightnight .
The opening knightnight of her new movie was a great success.
That nasty pin stopped me from moving my knightnight.
Let's go for a knightnight on the town to celebrate our graduation.
LINEAMENT / LINIMENT
Oil of wintergreen, also known as methyl salicylate, is a time-honoured rub or linimentlineament used for sprains, strains, aches, pains and arthritis.
Their final powerful lines reduced to linimentslineaments around the eyes.
If you experience such a symptom, there is no point in ignoring it or rubbing linimentlineament in the belief that it is a muscle pain.
His vanity is a linimentlineament in his character which had entirely escaped me.
MAIZE / MAZE
In Britain, this flour usually goes under the name of mazemaize meal.
The old part of the town was a mazemaize of narrow passages.
The villagers grow coffee and mazemaize to sell in the market.
It's almost impossible to get through the mazemaize of bureaucracy.
The kids got lost in the mazemaize that was created in a mazemaize field.
MELTED / MOLTEN
The furnaces produce iron in the initial phase of steel production.
I smell something strange and find the smoke alarm on the stove.
Place under a hot grill until the cheese has .
The rock rises to the seafloor and cools to form the layer of crust that paves the ocean floor.
MOTIF / MOTIVE
I think you should examine their motifsmotives in offering to lend you the money.
We chose some curtains with a flower motifmotive.
These flying triangles aren't ready to bear the weight of their own motifmotive energy source.
It is decorated with motifsmotives designed by local school children.
MOAN / MOWN
Apart from a slight about the waiter, he seemed to enjoy the meal.
Three shoppers were down this afternoon when a drunken driver lost control of his car.
I love the smell of new- hay.
His ears began to twitch when they picked up the sound of a soft coming from within the rubble.
The homeowner had a that the gardener hadn’t the lawn properly.
OBSOLESCENT / OBSOLETE
Gas lamps became obsoleteobsolescent when electric lighting was invented.
Much of our existing military hardware is obsoleteobsolescent.
The hostel at Waterbank has served a purpose for 40 years but is now obsoleteobsolescent.
So much equipment becomes obsoleteobsolescent almost as soon as it's made.
PEER / PIER
The shops weren't as good, there were no amusement arcades and no or beach.
He doesn't really want to join in, it's just pressure.
As soon as the ship was close to the wharf, he jumped from the boat to the .
He watched the Customs official into the driver's window.
