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Spoor vs. Spore
Spoor
/spɔː/Examples:
The explorer followed the spoor to find the lost city.Lost among the trees, she spotted fresh spoor near the stream.Rangers trained to track animal spoor through the dense forest.
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Spore
/spɔː/Examples:
The spore count increased dramatically in the summer.Spores can survive extreme conditions, unlike seeds.Fungi reproduce through the dispersion of spores.
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This word has no antonymsWays to tell them apart:
- Spoor relates to tracks or traces and is often used in the context of animals, think of tracks to remember this.
- Spore is a biological term related to fungi or plants, think of flora or fungi to remember this.
- Remember that spore is connected to reproduction, whereas spoor is more about following a trail.
- Associate spore with growth and spoor with tracking.
- Visualize spoor on the ground and spore in the microscopic world.
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