✅ Grammar refers to the basic elements, facts, or skills of a specific area of knowledge (This book will teach you the grammar of figure drawing).

✅ Principles are the rules or guiding philosophies of something (I went to a class on the principles of academic research).

✅ Both of these terms refer to the basic underlying knowledge that you need in order to understand a subject.

✅ Principles emphasizes the central rules and theories of a topic, whereas grammar emphasizes the fundamental basics of a topic.

✅ Tire means to exhaust somebody’s patience (I begin to tire of these theatrics).

✅ Bore means to make someone feel weary because of something dull or unexciting (I don’t want to bore anyone with my vacation stories).

✅ Tire and bore both mean to make someone feel exhausted.

✅ However, tire suggests that someone has had enough of something, even something exciting, whereas bore specifically suggests being tired of something dull.

✅ Thrift means cautious financial management or frugality (Thrift led him to mend his clothes rather than buy new ones).

✅ Prudence means cautious and wise financial management (Prudence meant that she was able to save up a lot of money).

✅ Both of these terms refer to not being wasteful or careless with money.

✅ Prudence emphasizes not being wasteful, particularly with the goal of preserving the money you have. Thrift emphasizes being frugal, particularly with the goal of saving money.