✅ Nice describes something that is pleasing or agreeable (The blouse had a nice collar).

✅ Dainty describes something of delicate beauty to the point of being exquisite (The pastry was topped with a dainty marzipan figure).

✅ Both of these words can describe things that are delightful, expertly made, and show delicacy.

✅ The word nice has many more meanings, however, like precise or friendly.

✅ Nourish means to give food or other necessary nutrients, but it can also mean to cherish or strengthen (It’s my job to nourish your intellect).

✅ Sustain means to provide with food and drink, but it can also mean to support through difficult times (Your kindness sustained me).

✅ Nourish and sustain have similar meanings. Both mean to give food and drink, and both also mean to support in other ways.

✅ Nourish emphasizes giving someone what they need for good health, whereas sustain suggests giving someone what they need for survival (This environment is very nourishing; We sustained ourselves on small rations).

✅ Apex refers to the tip or summit of something. In everyday use, it refers to the highest point of something (the apex of the mountain).

✅ Apogee refers to the the point at which something, like a satellite or the moon, is furthest from the Earth. It can be used figuratively to mean the highest point or climax (Her career reached its apogee when she won the award).

✅ Both these terms refer to high points in both literal and figurative ways.

✅ Each of these words, however, refer to different literal high points. Apogee refers to the most distant point in an orbit, whereas apex refers to a high point geographically.