PAIRS AND SNARES XXX

The words in each pair below can be easily confused. Can you give a simple definition of each one that shows the difference between them?

 

1. INDITE - INDICT

 

2. INURE - IMMURE

 

3. DACHA - DACHAU

 

4. MOXIE - CHUTZPAH

 

5. ANGORA - ANDORRA 

 

6. SOUP SPOON - SOUPCON

 

7. MYELOMA - MELANOMA

Answers:

1. INDITE - To write or compose

    INDICT - To formally charge or accuse of a crime

2. INURE - To accustom/harden oneself to something unpleasant

    IMMURE - To enclose/imprison someone against their will

 

3. DACHA - A Russian vacation home

    DACHAU - A notoriously brutal Nazi concentration camp

4. MOXIE - Force of character, determination, nerve (courage)

    CHUTZPAH - (Yiddish) Nerve 

    negatively, as in gall/arrogance

    Ex. After excluding her from the shower, she had the chutzpah to expect a gift.

    positively, as in courage/boldness

    Ex. She had the chutzpah to stand up to him.

5. ANGORA - A long-haired rabbit prized for the long fibers of its coat (angora wool)

    ANDORRA - A tiny, sovereign, land-locked European country in the Pyrenees Mountains, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south

6. SOUP SPOON 

    SOUPCON - (soop sawn)

   A very small quantity of something, as in food preparation/trace

7. MYELOMA - A type blood cancer (multiple myeloma)

    MELANOMA - A type of skin cancer