✅ To comfort someone means to soothe or console them (I comforted my niece after she fell down).

✅ To hearten someone means to give them courage or confidence (Her presence heartened me).

✅ Comfort and hearten both mean to cheer someone up in some way, but there are key differences.

✅ Comfort focuses on reassuring and sympathizing with someone (They comforted each other with a long hug). Hearten suggests giving someone moral support (Her kind words heartened me after my interview).

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✅ To table something means to put it aside to be discussed later (Let’s table this topic for now).

✅ To shelve a question or discussion means to put it off or put it aside (They shelved the idea of not serving coffee anymore at meetings).

✅ Table and shelve mean very similar things, but the key difference is that table implies putting something aside with the intention of putting it aside indefinitely, whereas shelve suggests putting it aside just for the moment.

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✅ Capriciousness refers to being prone to arbitrary and erratic changes in decisions, desires, emotions, and moods (Her capriciousness led her to make snap decisions).

✅ Fickleness refers to being changeable or being prone to change due to indecision or instability (We were frustrated by the fickleness of the weather).

✅ Capriciousness is a more negative word and suggests changes that are without motive, whimsical, or without care for others.

✅ Fickleness is a bit more neutral and emphasizes changes due to indecision.

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