✅ Tire means to exhaust somebody’s patience (I begin to tire of these theatrics).

✅ Bore means to make someone feel weary because of something dull or unexciting (I don’t want to bore anyone with my vacation stories).

✅ Tire and bore both mean to make someone feel exhausted.

✅ However, tire suggests that someone has had enough of something, even something exciting, whereas bore specifically suggests being tired of something dull.

✅ Thrift means cautious financial management or frugality (Thrift led him to mend his clothes rather than buy new ones).

✅ Prudence means cautious and wise financial management (Prudence meant that she was able to save up a lot of money).

✅ Both of these terms refer to not being wasteful or careless with money.

✅ Prudence emphasizes not being wasteful, particularly with the goal of preserving the money you have. Thrift emphasizes being frugal, particularly with the goal of saving money.

✅ Diagonal means sloping or joining two opposite corners that don’t share a side (a diagonal stripe).

✅ Oblique also means sloping or slanted (Oblique lines filled in the background).

✅ Both of these terms refer to things that are straight but not perpendicular.

✅ Oblique can also mean not parallel, and more metaphorically it can mean indirect or underhand (She spoke in oblique ways about the problem).