✅ Huddle means to confer about something or get together to have a discussion or make a decision (We huddled over the decision while getting coffee).

✅ Consult means to consider or deliberate over something, particularly in order to take or discuss professional advice (I consulted all my friends to figure out where to go for my birthday).

✅ These terms both mean to discuss something and get opinions from others.

✅ Consult emphasizes getting a professional opinion (I consulted with several doctors).

✅ Muddle means to confuse someone or make them feel mixed-up (I tried to follow the instructions, but was muddled by their complexity).

✅ Discombobulate means to confuse or bewilder someone (Being in crowds discombobulates me).

✅ Both of these terms mean to make a person feel confused or mentally lost.

✅ Muddle emphasizes feeling lost or like you can’t understand something. Discombobulate suggests a more intense feeling of bewilderment (Their constant arguing muddled my thoughts; Jet lag  discombobulates him).

✅ Poetry is a form of writing that follows a particular rhythmic or metrical form (a book of poetry).

✅ Verse is writing that follows a metrical form and can refer to a whole poem or part of a poem (I could only remember some scraps of verse).

✅ Both poetry and verse can refer to a piece of metrical writing, whether it rhymes or not.

✅ However, verse can sometimes be used to suggest that a piece of poetry has no artistic merit, and sometimes a piece of poetry might not involve metrical forms and so wouldn’t be called verse (trite verse; a statement that was like poetry).

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