Know the most confused and misused words with Mind Tricks

Breach Vs Breech  Careen Vs Career   Complacent Vs Complaisant  Forego Vs Forgo
Empathy Vs Sympathy 

Breach Vs Breech

Breach as a noun means an action that breaks an agreement, a law, or a promise.
                  As a verb, if you breach an agreement, a law, a promise, or even a wall, you break it.

• We should not breach any law of our country.

Breech means the back or lower part of anything
                   It also means an opening in a gun where bullets are loaded.

• Breech birth means the baby was delivered feet first.

Mind Trick:

Use breach when there is break. And use breech for back, bottom, or rear of things.

Careen Vs Career

Careen is a verb that means to swaying or tilting dangerously.

•  The motorcycle careened down the hill.

Career as verb means to move forward very quickly, especially in an uncontrolled way.
Most of the time, we happen to use the word careen in place of career because of very rare difference in their meaning. Lets do Mind Trick...

Mind Trick:

Complacent Vs Complaisant

Complacent(Adj.) means too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you don't feel that any change is necessary;
Complaisant(Adj.) means ready to accept other people's actions and opinions and to do what other people want.

• Sri Devi was a complaisant wife.

If you are complacent, you are pleased with yourself; if complaisant, you wish to others.
Mind Trick:
The last "sant" of the word Complaisant sounds like "saint" means a wise person who easily accept other's opinions. With the help of this trick, you can easily differentiate between these two words.

Forego Vs Forgo

Forego means to go before, to precede in place or time

• Our security guards will forego, and then our P.M. shall go.

Forgo means to decide not to have or do something that you would like to have or do; to give up

• No Minister will forgo their own position.

Mind Trick:
Forego comes from fore meaning before and go.
Forgo comes from for and go.

Empathy Vs Sympathy 

Empathy means the ability to understand another person's feelings, experience; empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own.

Sympathy means the feeling of being sorry for somebody; if you have sympathy for someone who is in a bad situation, you are sorry for them and show this in the way you behave towards them.

You feel sympathy when someone's relative died; feel empathy when your relative died.
When you feel sorry for someone feel sympathy for his/her; when you feel emotion of someone, feel empathy for his/her

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