•September 13, 2023•

By Jim Baumann

NP Guest Writer

Sometimes — when I’m talking to myself, because, really, who else would listen to me for more than 20 column inches once a week? — I wonder whether words that are very similar are synonyms, whether they have minor differences or whether they have nothing to do with each other.

The following four pairings entered my inner dialogue: ineptness versus ineptitude, plenty versus plenitude, gentility versus gentleness, and dissemble versus disassemble.

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