✅ Healthful is the best word to describe something that is good for your health, especially your physical health (a healthful lifestyle; a healthful amount of exercise).

✅ Wholesome is the best word to describe something that is good for you in general, whether it affects your physical, mental, or social health (a wholesome routine; a wholesome meal).

✅ Wholesome is broader than healthful in that it can be used to describe anything supposedly morally good for you (wholesome family fun; wholesome values).

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✅ Recall is the best word for trying consciously to remember something (I couldn’t recall if I’d taken my medication).

✅ Recollect is similar, but it suggests a stronger effort to remember something, especially defined facts and details (Try to recollect what happened that day).

✅ Recall and recollect can be used synonymously, though recollect can sound more formal and suggests a particularly high level of effort (recall the answer to yesterday’s puzzle; recollect the exact circumstances of the event).

Try using the word recollect in a paragraph about something you saw last week, with the help of Grammar Coach.

✅ Intelligent is the best word to describe someone who has good reasoning and understanding abilities and who has a sharp mind (an intelligent reader).

✅ Intelligent is used in a general way to encompass a whole range of traits, whereas quick focuses specifically on how easily and rapidly someone can understand things or make connections (She was an intelligent leader; She had a quick mind).

✅ Intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean that someone has had a lot of schooling, although it’s often used that way, while quick simply means mentally agile.

Show off your intelligence with these synonyms for quick.