✅ Age refers to a period of time that is contemporary with a person’s, or multiple people’s, lifespan (the jazz age; the best writer of their age).

✅ Generation refers to a body of individuals who are living at the same time, especially those who are about the same age and who may share ideas, lifestyles, or attitudes (This generation doesn’t have the same expectations as previous generations).

✅ Age and generation are both words that are used to refer to different time periods that are difficult to define in numerical terms and are instead defined by cultural phenomena or relationships between certain people and events.

✅ Generation often refers collectively to people who are the same age, whereas age refers to a period of time that is approximately the length of a human lifespan (the social-media generation; the Space Age).

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✅ Compliment means to express praise or admiration of someone or something (I must compliment you on your lovely suit).

✅ Applaud means to express approval of something (I applauded his attention to detail).

✅ Both of these words mean to draw attention to something you see as positive and praiseworthy.

✅ Applaud suggests a stronger sense of praiseworthiness than compliment.

✅ Drain means to exhaust or use all of something, often gradually (The meeting drained my patience).

✅ Deplete means to decrease something by a substantial amount or use all or most of it up (The repairs depleted our savings).

✅ Drain and deplete both mean to cause to run out of a certain resource.

✅ Drain indicates a more gradual but eventually complete emptying process, while deplete suggests a reduction of an element that is so severe it inhibits functioning.