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Desperate vs. Disparate
Desperate
/ˈdespərət/Examples:
Frank Churchill's character was not desperate.Her husband's work with poison gas triggered even more desperate melancholy.It was splendid, magnificent, desperate.
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Disparate
/ˈdɪspərət/Examples:
The two applicants had disparate qualifications.Her disparate hobbies included knitting and skydiving.Despite their disparate views, the talks were productive.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Desperate contains the word desire, which reflects urgency or intensity.
- Disparate shares a root with separate, as it describes things that are distinctly different.
- Desperate often involves emotions and urgency, while disparate refers more to differences in kind or category.
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