✅ A fable is a short story, generally designed to teach a moral lesson. Fable can also refer to myths, legends, or fairy tales (I collect books of fables).

✅ A parable is a short story that illustrates a truth, a religious principle, or a moral lesson (She told me a parable that explained the consequences of lying).

✅ Fables and parables are both forms of story, often folk tales or fairy stories.

✅ Parable can refer to any story that illustrates a truth or lesson, while fable doesn’t always refer to a story that teaches a lesson.

✅ Devour means to eat something hungrily or eagerly (I devoured my breakfast after going for a run).

✅ Wolf means to devour something particularly eagerly (She wolfed her food, finishing long before everyone else).

✅ Devour and wolf both suggest eating quickly, in a focused way. They also both suggest eating ravenously and not being picky.

✅ Wolf is a more intense word than devour, but it is also more blunt, and it can be more or less evocative depending on context (We devoured every meal at the feast; I wolfed down handfuls of berries).

✅ Glitter means to reflect light in a sparkly way, as if lots of small shiny surfaces are all reflecting light (The gems glittered).

✅ Spangle means to glitter with spangles or as if covered in spangles, which are small pieces of decoration, often metal, that reflect light (He liked bright fabrics that spangled in the low light).

✅ Glitter and spangle both mean to reflect light in a fragmented, sparkly way.

✅ Spangle is a less common word than glitter (His eyes glittered with tears; The city lights spangled the sky).