✅ Reflection refers to focusing your thoughts on a topic and giving it full, careful consideration (The mindfulness retreat gave us a lot of time for reflection).
✅ Contemplation refers to focusing on a topic and considering it in depth (She was lost in contemplation).
✅ Reflection particularly suggests thinking about a past situation, or your previous behavior, in order to learn from it (After a period of reflection, I decided to apologize).
✅ Contemplation particularly suggests thinking about something in an unhurried way (The poem was a contemplation of the meaning of life).
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✅ Healthy describes having good physical and mental health or being physically and mentally well (I was finally healthy after a period of illness).
✅ Hale describes being free of any illness and having good, robust health (I took several hale helpers with me to shovel all the snow).
✅ Healthy emphasizes having good health, whereas hale emphasizes having resilience regarding your physical health.
✅ Hale is a less common word and is usually used in the phrase hale and hearty.
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✅ Cowardly describes lacking courage and not being brave (The cowardly cat hid under the bed).
✅ Yellow-bellied is an informal way of saying that someone lacks courage (The yellow-bellied fool has betrayed us!).
✅ Cowardly and yellow-bellied both have pretty negative connotations. Using cowardly or yellow-bellied suggests that you feel contempt or scorn for the person described.
✅ Yellow-bellied is an old-fashioned slang term and is not usually used seriously now.
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