✅ Award means to give something that has been won or earned (It is my pleasure to award your company eco-friendly status).

✅ Grant means to bestow or give, especially by a formal process (We will grant you a two-month extension to the deadline).

✅ Award and grant both mean to give someone something because of something they have done. However, award tends to refer to prizes, rewards, and recognition, given after something has been completed (We will award you with a certificate if you complete all the lessons).

✅ Grant tends to refer to something you are given in order to do something, usually after a competitive process (We were lucky to be granted the money that will allow us to build a new park).

✅ Carp means to find fault unnecessarily, be critical about inconsequential things, and complain unreasonably (He tended to carp if he didn’t get his own way).

✅ Cavil means to raise trivial and annoying objections or to find fault unnecessarily (She caviled over every aspect of planning the party).

✅ Carp and cavil both mean to find fault and be unnecessarily critical.

✅ However, cavil emphasizes objecting for no reason, whereas carp emphasizes complaining and being critical.

✅ Expect means to look for something, especially a particular behavior, often while having justification or reason to do so (I expect everyone to follow the rules).

✅ Insist means to demand, especially persistently (She insists that we follow the rules at all times).

✅ Expect and insist both refer to demanding some sort of behavior from someone else, whether that demand is justified or not.

✅ Sometimes someone might expect something that seems unreasonable or unjustified (He really expects us to treat him like a king). However, expect generally suggests a reasonable demand, whereas insist often, though not always, suggests an unreasonable demand.