✅ A knight is a person of high military rank who is supposed to behave in a chivalrous way (The knight bowed to the king).
✅ A paladin is a knightly or heroic champion for a person or cause (a paladin of the environment).
✅ Historically, in medieval Europe, a knight was a man of aristocratic birth who achieved the rank of knight after an apprenticeship as a page and squire.
✅ Historically, paladin refers specifically to any one of the twelve knights of Charlemagne. However, paladin can also refer to a passionate defender of another person or cause.
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✅ A rift is a serious disagreement between two people, groups, nations, etc., that leads them to no longer be friendly with each other (The sale of an heirloom led to a rift in the family).
✅ A schism refers to the division of a group into mutually opposed groups (The reboot movie led to a schism between new fans and old fans).
✅ Rift and schism both refer to intense disagreements that lead to people, or groups of people, being on opposing sides.
✅ Rift suggests a broken friendship and implies that if the disagreement is solved, friendship may return. Schism suggests a division that is likely to be long-lasting.
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✅ Abridge means to shorten something by taking out portions while retaining the essential content or meaning (an abridged version of a classic novel).
✅ Truncate means to shorten something by cutting off a part (The song was truncated for release as a single).
✅ Both abridge and truncate mean to shorten something while retaining the essentials.
✅ Abridge suggests removing portions throughout, whereas truncate suggests removing a specific section.
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