Category: Vocabulary

Price or cost?

Price or cost? Starting with their use as nouns, here is a short definition of each word: Price – the amount of money we pay for something. Cost – the amount of money we...

Unperturbed or imperturbable?

To understand the difference between unperturbed and imperturbable, let’s start with the meaning of “perturbed”, which is something like upset or troubled. We say that someone is “unperturbed” when they are not perturbed –...

Conscience

“Conscience” is pronounced something like “konshuns” ( /ˈkɑn·ʃəns/ ). If you would like to hear it pronounced by a speaker of British English, click here. We use it to mean knowing what is right...

What is a Joke?

As a noun, “a joke” is something that is said to make people laugh. And as a verb, “to joke” is to say something to make people laugh. Some examples: (In English there is...