✅ Agree is a general word for coming to a shared decision (We agreed on a course of action).

✅ Assent is more formal and often means to accept a decision without being part of reaching that decision (The governor assented to the representatives’ plan).

✅ Assent is often more passive than agree, implying one has given in to someone else’s decision (My mom assented to hosting the party).

✅ Agree implies a more participatory and mutual decision (It took a long time for us to agree).

We hope you’ll agree to check out these synonyms for assent.

✅ Special is the perfect word to describe something that is treated differently because it’s uncommon (a special event) or stands out (Our first apartment was so special).

✅ Particular is the perfect word to describe something that has been singled out from other similar things for attention (We always sit at a particular table in the restaurant); often what is singled out is something otherwise ordinary (That particular lamp is too tall).

✅ Special indicates that a person or thing stands out on their own merits, whereas particular usually implies that a person or thing is just like its peers, and is being picked out for some other reason.

Try using Grammar Coach to write a paragraph about one particular flower in a garden.

✅ Detest and abhor both mean to have a deep dislike, hatred, or horror of something or someone.

✅ Detest also involves disdain (I detest bucket hats), while abhor describes a strong sense of horror and rejection (I abhor lying).

✅ Detest focuses on the sense of hatred, whereas abhor suggests that the thing offends your morals (He detested bullies; She abhorred needless waste).

✅ Inanimate things and concepts can be said to abhor something, meaning that the thing or action is incredibly unlikely, or even impossible (Nature abhors a vacuum).

It’ll be difficult to detest these superb synonyms for abhor!