✅ Recall is the best word for trying consciously to remember something (I couldn’t recall if I’d taken my medication).

✅ Recollect is similar, but it suggests a stronger effort to remember something, especially defined facts and details (Try to recollect what happened that day).

✅ Recall and recollect can be used synonymously, though recollect can sound more formal and suggests a particularly high level of effort (recall the answer to yesterday’s puzzle; recollect the exact circumstances of the event).

Try using the word recollect in a paragraph about something you saw last week, with the help of Grammar Coach.

✅ Intelligent is the best word to describe someone who has good reasoning and understanding abilities and who has a sharp mind (an intelligent reader).

✅ Intelligent is used in a general way to encompass a whole range of traits, whereas quick focuses specifically on how easily and rapidly someone can understand things or make connections (She was an intelligent leader; She had a quick mind).

✅ Intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean that someone has had a lot of schooling, although it’s often used that way, while quick simply means mentally agile.

Show off your intelligence with these synonyms for quick.

✅ Flexible is the best word to describe something that bends easily without breaking (a flexible wire).

✅ Pliant is the best word to describe something that yields easily, or bends with very little pressure (pliant bread dough; pliant tree branch).

✅ Flexible and pliant can also refer to someone or something that is adaptable (Their plans were flexible; She has a pliant character).

✅ However, pliant is often used to mean compliant and easily influenced, especially in a derogatory way (He’s very pliant—he’ll go along with anything).

Increase the flexibility of your vocabulary with these synonyms for pliant.