✅ Lumber means to move heavily and clumsily, especially due to carrying or moving under a large amount of weight (They lumbered down the road, stooped under the weight of their packs).

✅ Galumph also means to move heavily or clumsily (The elephant galumphed across the mountain).

✅ Lumber implies that a weight or burden is making you move in a different way. Galumph implies that this is your normal way of moving.

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✅ Haughty means snobby, disdainfully proud, or particularly arrogant in a scornful way (a haughty princess).

✅ Imperious means overbearing, dictatorial, and domineering (an imperious manager).

✅ Haughty is a general attitude one might have. Imperious is an attitude a person might have when they have some sort of power over you, or when they’re telling you what to do (He’s been very haughty since he inherited a fortune; She’s imperious with everyone she manages).

✅ Haughty and imperious both have negative connotations.

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✅ Spoil means to harm or damage someone through unwise treatment, especially through indulging them too much (They spoiled their grandkids).

✅ Cosset means to pamper or coddle, especially in the sense of treating someone or something like a pet (She cosseted her little sister).

✅ Spoil and cosset mean similar but distinct things. They both suggest overindulging a person or pet.

✅ However, spoil suggests being overly indulgent of someone’s wants and desires, whereas cosset suggests indulging them regardless of their own desires (You’ll spoil that child if you don’t let them try to solve their own problems; He had a tendency to cosset his best customers).

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