✅ Accomplish means to reach a goal through perseverance, effort, or skill (I accomplished quite a bit in my first year as assistant coach).
✅ Achieve means to accomplish something particularly important or great (I achieved the rank of associate professor).
✅ Accomplish and achieve both describe finishing what you set out to do. They especially refer to large or long-running projects that require skill or effort to complete (We accomplished our career goals; She achieved victory over her to-do list).
✅ Accomplish centers the amount of skill it took to finish the project. Achieve centers the positives gained with finishing the project.
Try using achieve in a paragraph defining your goals for the future!
✅ Inherent is the best word to describe an inborn and permanent quality of something or someone (She had an inherent happiness).
✅ Intrinsic is the best word to describe a quality held internally, by virtue of a person or a thing’s nature, that can’t be affected by outside forces (the intrinsic value of gold).
✅ Inherent and intrinsic have a lot of overlap in meaning. Both describe characteristics or qualities that can’t be taken away without changing the fundamental nature of something (The value inherent in everyone; the intrinsic beauty of the landscape).
✅ However, inherent emphasizes that a characteristic is present from the beginning (All the financial plans had inherent problems), whereas intrinsic emphasizes that a characteristic can’t be altered by anything external (We all have intrinsic worth).
Try using intrinsic in a paragraph describing what you value!
✅ To offer means to present something to be accepted or rejected. It can be something physical or intangible (She offered them help; He offered her his watch).
✅ Proffer means the same but it is more formal and literary (He proffered the crown).
✅ Offer is a general word you can use in all kinds of circumstances. Proffer is used almost exclusively in formal contexts, and you won’t see it as often (I offered him some lemonade; We proffer legal assistance).
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