✅ Humbug refers to nonsense (His book was full of humbug).

✅ Drivel refers to silly, meaningless talk (Her complaints were pure drivel).

✅ Both of these words refer to things that lack meaning.

✅ Saying Bah humbug! is like saying Ugh! Nonsense!

✅ Jam means to push into a limited or confined space (I jammed my headphones into my pocket).

✅ Squish means to squeeze into a confined space (All six clowns squished into the car).

✅ Both of these words mean to get oneself or something else into a smaller space than it ought to fit in.

✅ Jam suggests the use of more force than squish.

✅ Guess refers to an opinion that you’ve come to based on little to no evidence (My guess is that she’s nervous).

✅ Theory refers to an opinion that you hold, which is based on conjecture and minimal evidence (I have a theory that pockets are getting smaller).

✅ Guess and theory both refer to opinions based on ideas and feelings rather than facts and strong evidence, but theory suggests more evidence than guess.

✅ Theory also has a scientific meaning, and in that case, it refers to a proposed explanation that still needs experimentation to be proven or to an already tested explanation or proposition that consistently explains given phenomena (the theory of relativity).