✅ Courageous describes being brave (The courageous puppy stared down a lizard the size of my thumb).

✅ Lionhearted describes being especially brave or particularly courageous (The usually lionhearted knight was nervous on the morning of the competition).

✅ Courageous and lionhearted have similar meanings, but lionhearted has a stronger, more intense meaning.

✅ Lionhearted is a very evocative word that is often used for literary or dramatic effect, whereas courageous is a little more everyday (It’s courageous of you to go skydiving; We need a lionhearted person to help us defeat the evil wizard).

✅ A mishmash is a confused mess of different things (The dish was a mishmash of whatever I had in the refrigerator).

✅ An olio is a mixture of different elements (The quaint shop sold an olio of curated items).

✅ While mishmash and olio both refer to mixtures made up of different elements, mishmash is often a negative term suggesting confusion and disorganization (Her decor was really a mishmash).

✅ Olio is more neutral and suggests an organized mix that has variety (Their library was a delightful olio).

✅ Frill refers to extra things that make something look cool or fancy. Frill is often plural and commonly used in the phrase ‘no frills’ (an efficient no-frills design).

✅ Frippery refers to empty, over-the-top displays or things done for display (I didn’t like all the frippery on the gown).

✅ Both frill and frippery are used negatively or dismissively to refer to useless things that are used just for effect or to make something look better than it really is (The movie looks good, but it’s all frill and no substance; She loved frippery in her clothes but not in her home decor).