✅ Compliment means to express praise or admiration of someone or something (I must compliment you on your lovely suit).

✅ Applaud means to express approval of something (I applauded his attention to detail).

✅ Both of these words mean to draw attention to something you see as positive and praiseworthy.

✅ Applaud suggests a stronger sense of praiseworthiness than compliment.

✅ Drain means to exhaust or use all of something, often gradually (The meeting drained my patience).

✅ Deplete means to decrease something by a substantial amount or use all or most of it up (The repairs depleted our savings).

✅ Drain and deplete both mean to cause to run out of a certain resource.

✅ Drain indicates a more gradual but eventually complete emptying process, while deplete suggests a reduction of an element that is so severe it inhibits functioning.

✅ Voice means to express something in words (I voiced my concerns to my boss).

✅ Assert means to state something with confidence (I asserted my boundaries).

✅ Voice and assert both mean to express something and make something clear in words.

✅ Assert suggests confidence and power, whereas voice emphasizes expressing something, especially something that has been hidden or forgotten (She voiced what we all had been thinking).