✅ Focus refers to the central point of an activity or the central point that you need to pay attention to (Getting adequate nutrition is the focus of meal planning).

✅ Core refers to the central, innermost, or most important part of something (the core of an argument).

✅ Both focus and core refer to the most important or key part of something.

✅ The focus is the part that your energies are concentrated on, whereas the core is the key theme or underlying concept.

✅ Stress refers to the emphasis put on certain syllables, whether in normal speech or in poetry (He placed the stress in his words carefully, as he didn’t want to be misheard).

✅ Accent refers to the prominence of a syllable within a word in terms of length, pitch, or similar (My first name is unusual because the accent is on the first syllable rather than the second).

✅ Both of these words refer to the emphasis involved in pronouncing a word, either in an expected or unexpected way.

✅ Stress can indicate melody or a beat within poetry or music, but accent in this context indicates a regular and repeating stress pattern.

✅ Easy describes something that isn’t hard and doesn’t require effort (an easy recipe).

✅ Effortless describes something that doesn’t require effort (His guitar playing was effortless).

✅ Both of these words can also describe something that only looks as if it doesn’t require effort.

✅ Easy emphasizes inherent simpleness, whereas effortless emphasizes the learned skills that make something simple.