✅ Help means to give aid to someone, assist them, or make something easier for them (I asked them to help me with moving).

✅ Alleviate means to make something easier to bear, lessen something, or mitigate it (Everyone’s support alleviated my sadness).

✅ Help is more general, and can mean to make something easier for someone to bear, or contribute to lessening their pain (The new tablets really helped my migraines)

✅ Alleviate focuses more on the idea of healing, fixing or changing something, either fully or partially, in a way that makes someone feel better or makes something easier for them (We decided to alleviate her burden by bringing her food for the week).

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✅ Dreadful describes something that is extremely and particularly bad (a dreadful cup of coffee).

✅ Bad can describe something that is of poor quality or inadequate, or it can describe a person or thing that is evil or wicked. Dreadful can be used to suggest a stronger sense of wickedness or inadequacy (A bad witch; a dreadful villain).

✅ Dreadful can mean that something is ugly, or particularly unpleasant. Bad can mean unpleasant, but doesn’t usually suggest ugliness (We’re having such bad weather; What a dreadful hat).

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✅ Indicate and show both mean to make something visible or evident, or to direct someone’s attention to something (She indicated where we could find snacks; She showed us the way home).

✅ Show is a more general word, and can mean to display something or to point something out (Show me what the problem is).

✅ Indicate can suggest pointing something out in a more precise and specific way than show, or it can suggest making something evident in a more implicit way (They indicated their unhappiness by going quiet, though they never said anything).

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