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Pray vs. Prey
Pray
/preɪ/Examples:
I pray before bed every night.Let's pray for good weather tomorrow.
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This word has no antonymsPrey
/preɪ/Examples:
'The Hotel Savoy has fallen prey to me, brother,' he said."The king," he said, "is a prey to jealousy and uneasiness."He has fallen prey to the Hotel Savoy.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Pray is related to religion, think of prayer to remember.
- Prey involves an animal being hunted, remember predator-prey relationship.
- Pray has an a which resembles a person in a praying posture.
- Prey has an e, like in eat, because prey is often eaten.
- Pray is an action involving words, while prey relates to survival and the natural world.
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