{"id":4213,"date":"2018-08-23T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.getmorevocab.com\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2020-03-01T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:23:38","slug":"shades-meaning-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getmorevocab.com\/shades-meaning-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Meaning in Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Using precise terms will make you a better communicator.<\/p>\n
One way to be more precise is by choosing words with the appropriate level of intensity.<\/p>\n
For example, think of the verbs rain<\/em>, drizzle<\/em>, and pour<\/em>. Rain<\/em> isn’t very precise. Telling me it’s raining<\/em> doesn’t give me much information. Is it raining a lot, or just a little bit. Do I really need my umbrella?<\/p>\n But if you tell me it’s drizzling<\/em>\u00a0or pouring<\/em>, I have a more accurate picture of what’s going on. (Drizzle<\/em> means that it’s raining just a little bit, and\u00a0pour<\/em>\u00a0means that it’s raining very hard.)<\/p>\n These differences between similar words are called shades of meaning.<\/p>\n Here are 10 charts showing the shades of meaning between similar verbs.<\/p>\n