✅ Someone or something hostile is openly mean or aggressive (The dog's hostile growl made me back away).

✅ Factious refers to causing or relating to internal divisions or conflicts within a group (The factious debate split the committee into two camps).

✅ Both words involve conflict.

✅ Hostile pertains more to direct aggression or confrontation, while factious is often used in political contexts to mean contributing to division within a group (The teenager showed a hostile attitude toward her parents after being grounded; The factious nature of the city council meeting was exhausting).

✅ Supply refers to a quantity of something that is available or provided for use (We have a good supply of water for the hike).

✅ Cache refers to a hidden or stored collection of items, often for future use (They found a secret cache of food in the cabin).

✅ Both terms relate to having a stock of items available.

✅ Supply suggests a resource that is readily available and accessible, while cache has an element of secrecy or reservation (We have a steady supply of pencils in the office; The squirrels have a cache of nuts for winter).

✅ A ghost refers to the spirit of a dead person that is thought to appear to the living (They say the old house is haunted by a ghost).

✅ An apparition refers to a supernatural or ghostly figure that suddenly appears, often unexpectedly (An apparition of a woman in white appeared in the mist).

✅ Both words describe ghostly or spectral figures.

✅ Ghost is more common in everyday language, while apparition has a more formal or eerie tone (The ghost haunted the castle; The mysterious apparition vanished before their eyes).