✅ Both result and effect refer to what's produced by an action or cause.
✅ Result is best when you want to capture the sum of effects as a final outcome (As a result of the meeting, they set a date for the community clean-up).
✅ Effect is often used when there is a direct link to a cause (In my opinion, coffee's effects are all positive!).
✅ Still, both effect and result can suggest consequences that are far-removed or tangential (ripple effects; long-term results).
✅ Novel is the perfect word when something is new in an unusual or strikingly different way (The lab developed novel approaches to treat diseases).
✅ Both novel and fresh can refer to ideas or perspectives that are unexpected and generally pleasing (A video game with a thesaurus would be a novel idea).
❗️ You can call a novel novel, but don't mix up novel with the other senses of fresh that are used to describe vegetables or air!
✅ Although same and similar indicate a likeness between two or more things, they are not equivalent!
✅ Same means identical (She always did the exact same thing I did).
✅ Similar, though, is better when you want to describe two things as having certain but not all qualities in common (Their writing styles were very similar, but his was more descriptive than hers).
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