✅ Ramble means to wander leisurely (ramble through the countryside).
✅ Peregrinate means to travel, especially by walking (peregrinate from one town to another).
✅ Ramble and peregrinate are both words that refer to walking, especially when the walking itself, rather than the destination, is the most important part (ramble around the local stores; peregrinate across Europe).
✅ However, peregrinate suggests traveling to destinations, whereas ramble suggests a leisurely and often short walk.
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✅ To advocate for something means to recommend it or publicly support it in some way (advocate for better public transport).
✅ To promote something means to encourage it to flourish or develop; it can mean to further a cause or idea (promote world peace).
✅ Advocate suggests a specific method of active public support, such as through speech or writing.
✅ Promote can suggest other methods, such as private political efforts, or by modeling a lifestyle that reflects what you wish to promote.
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✅ Daub means to cover or coat a surface with a substance, especially in a rough or even unskillful way (They daubed paint onto their canvases).
✅ Smear means to spread a substance over a surface, especially in a slightly messy or uneven way (She smeared cream cheese on her bagel).
✅ Daub and smear both mean to put a substance on a surface, but they suggest slightly different substances, methods, and results.
✅ Daub suggests that an adhesive substance is being applied, while smear suggests a greasy or oily substance is being applied, and with an only slightly neater result (We daubed clay on the walls as part of the building process; We smeared sunscreen on our arms).
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