✅ Attractive describes someone or something that has a delightful or appealing appearance or manner (an attractive actor; an attractive garden).

✅ Handsome describes someone who is good-looking, especially in a well-proportioned and healthy-seeming way. It can also describe pleasing things (a handsome singer; handsome furniture).

✅ It’s more common to use these words—especially handsome—to describe people, rather than things (The graduate looked particularly handsome; the attractive teacher).

✅ While attractive is the more gender-neutral term, handsome can be used to describe anyone, suggesting that they have strong, stately features.

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✅ An observer refers to a person who watches something happening. Sometimes this is for official purposes, to make sure that a given set of rules is followed or to take notes on what happens (They hired a neutral observer to keep a record of the peace talks).

✅ An eyewitness is a person that sees something happen, often by chance, and can give an account of it (The testimony of the eyewitness was important to the case).

✅ Eyewitness is most often used in relation to crimes or newsworthy events (She was an eyewitness to the accident).

✅ Observer often suggests a person who intentionally watches something, such as a procedure, happen (Observers said the innovative surgery went smoothly).

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✅ Designate means to mark, indicate, assign, or specify something (He was designated the leader of the group; The items that had already sold were designated with a sticker).

✅ Earmark means to set something aside for a certain purpose, often used in accounting, finance, or business (The money was earmarked for our dinner).

✅ Designate can refer to assigning a person to a role, position, or job, but earmark is almost always used for assigning purpose to things rather than people (We earmarked the donation for books; The mayor designated the librarian as the city record keeper).

✅ Earmark is a more specific and less formal word than designate.

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