Ingenious comes from the Latin ingeniosus meaning ‘clever, gifted with genius’; it is mostly used nowadays to describe someone who comes up with clever ideas, and is capable of inventing things. This creative talent that the individual has is inborn. According to this article, the NGO has come up with an ingenious way of saving […]
Read More INGENIOUS OR INGENUOUS PLAN?A journal usually focuses on a specific field of study; its area of interest, therefore, is very limited. For example, there may be a journal which focuses solely on the novels written during the Victorian era; similarly, there may be a journal which deals with teaching the art of writing to young children. The articles […]
Read More MAGAZINE VS. JOURNALIf you have a class at 11 am, and you enter the classroom at exactly 11 am, then you are on time for class. On time means punctual. When planes and trains arrive at the scheduled time – not a minute before or a minute after – then, they are on time. Of course, this […]
Read More IN TIME VS ON TIMEMany people mistakenly tend to use the two words interchangeably. A translator and an interpreter have command of two or more languages. According to most dictionaries, an interpreter is someone who deals with the spoken word. In 1977, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee gave a speech in Hindi at the UN General Assembly, interpreters speaking in […]
Read More INTERPRETER VS. TRANSLATORThe term colleague comes from the Latin ‘collega’, meaning ‘partner in office’, and it is normally used to refer to someone who works with you in the same organisation. Being your peer, the individual is usually of the same rank or level as you, and the two of you have more or less the same […]
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