✅ Summon means to call people together, often from a position of authority in order to do an important action (All the council members were summoned into the hall).

✅ Assemble means to bring people together, often into one group (The detective assembled the guests in the dining room).

✅ These terms both mean to bring people together into one place.

✅ Summon implies that they have been brought together by an authority figure, whereas assemble can mean that people have gathered in a specific place with or without an authority figure (When we heard the alarm, we assembled in the garden).

✅ Blench means to flinch or shrink back (She blenched at the sudden noise).

✅ Cringe means to shrink back or cower (The scared dog cringed in a corner).

✅ Both of these words mean to make yourself seem smaller, generally out of fear or pain.

✅ Cringe can suggest acting in a servile or obsequious way out of fear and adopting a posture that suggests this way of acting (They cringed in front of the king).

✅ Space refers to a span of time or an area (the space between the buildings; She purposefully left a space for me to speak).

✅ Interval refers to a section of time or physical space between things (The interval between speakers is five minutes; There’s a five inch interval between lines).

✅ Both of these terms refer to gaps between things, particularly in time.

✅ Interval can often sound more formal than space.