✅ Resolve refers to determination or to being firmly fixed on a course of action (She followed her dreams with resolve and dedication).

✅ Steadfastness refers to a firm sense of purpose or to a dedication to something such as a relationship, a course of action, or a faith or belief (His steadfastness in difficult times was something I really admired).

✅ Resolve and steadfastness both refer to a strong sense of purpose.

✅ Steadfastness refers to a dedication to relationships, which resolve does not.

✅ Focus refers to the central point of an activity or the central point that you need to pay attention to (Getting adequate nutrition is the focus of meal planning).

✅ Core refers to the central, innermost, or most important part of something (the core of an argument).

✅ Both focus and core refer to the most important or key part of something.

✅ The focus is the part that your energies are concentrated on, whereas the core is the key theme or underlying concept.

✅ Stress refers to the emphasis put on certain syllables, whether in normal speech or in poetry (He placed the stress in his words carefully, as he didn’t want to be misheard).

✅ Accent refers to the prominence of a syllable within a word in terms of length, pitch, or similar (My first name is unusual because the accent is on the first syllable rather than the second).

✅ Both of these words refer to the emphasis involved in pronouncing a word, either in an expected or unexpected way.

✅ Stress can indicate melody or a beat within poetry or music, but accent in this context indicates a regular and repeating stress pattern.