✅ Brash describes someone who is tactless and impertinent and can come across as rude (a brash young person; a brash reply to her text).

✅ Cheeky describes someone who is playfully disrespectful and bold (a cheeky toddler; a cheeky compliment).

✅ Brash and cheeky both describe being impertinent, and both these qualities can seem like rudeness.

✅ Brash is a more negative term, whereas cheeky is more neutral or positive.

✅ Shake can mean to gesticulate with something (She shook her fist at the seagull that stole her lunch).

✅ Brandish means to wave a weapon in a threatening way (They brandished foam swords at each other).

✅ In this sense, shake and brandish have basically the same meaning.

✅ Shake, however, has a much more general meaning that brandish does not: to move something in short quick movements (Shake the bottle to mix the ingredients).

✅ Steep describes something that has an almost vertical slope or incline (a steep hill).

✅ Precipitous describes something that is dangerously steep (a precipitous series of steps).

✅ Steep and precipitous have very similar meanings with precipitous being a stronger, more intense word.

✅ Steep is used for both climbs and descents, whereas precipitous more often refers to falls or declines (The roller coaster featured a precipitous drop).