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Turbid vs. Turgid
Turbid
/ˈtəːbɪd/Examples:
The river ran turbid, heavy with debris from the storm.His thoughts were as turbid as the muddy waters of the delta.The scientist examined the turbid solution under the microscope.
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Turgid
/ˈtɜːdʒəd/Examples:
His turgid prose made the novel hard to finish.The river swelled, turgid after the heavy rains.Her speech was filled with turgid rhetoric.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Turbid is related to liquids, remember it with turbo engines stirring things up and making them muddy or unclear.
- Turgid refers to something swollen or pompous, think g for growing or getting bigger and puffed up.
- Turbid is like looking through cloudy water, while turgid is about something that bursts out or seems inflated.
- If its about a river, its likely turbid; if it's a speech full of fancy words, it might be turgid.
- Both involve obscurity - turbid visual, turgid contextual or physical.
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