✅ Devoted describes having an emotionally powerful affection or loyalty (a devoted fanbase).
✅ Devout describes being pious, religious, or more generally earnest and sincere (a community of devout followers).
✅ Devoted and devout have similar meanings. Both suggest a strong emotional connection to someone or something.
✅ Devout suggests a strong connection to a religion or having an almost religious allegiance to something (a devout vegetarian). Devoted doesn’t suggest religion in the same way (devoted to a political cause; devoted to his family).
✅ A platform is a raised surface that can be used by performers or speakers (The speaker climbed onto the platform and adjusted the microphone).
✅ A podium is a smaller raised surface to be used by a speaker, by someone receiving a medal, or similar (The politician delivered an inspiring speech from the podium).
✅ Both platform and podium refer to areas that are raised in order to make someone visible to a crowd.
✅ Platform has a wider use than podium: it can refer to any raised surface or even a policy held by a politician or group (The party's platform emphasized the need for economic reform).
✅ Hair-raising means terrifying or horrifying (The ghost tour was a hair-raising experience).
✅ Spine-chilling means very frightening (The novel was absolutely spine-chilling).
✅ Both of these words describe how you might feel about a horror story or movie—and both words reflect different bodily sensations you might have while reading that story or watching that movie!