✅ Pan means to criticize something thoroughly or completely in some sort of published form (If I’d known that critics were going to pan my performance, I wouldn’t have made the movie).

✅ Roast means to ridicule or criticize someone or something mercilessly (The actor was known to roast his own characters).

✅ Pan and roast are both informal terms used to refer to criticizing something.

✅ Pan suggests a public criticism, especially in a review (Reviewers panned the movie, but audiences loved it). Roast suggests making fun of something or someone, especially in a critical way (My friends and I roast each other for fun).

✅ An emoticon is an icon or set of keyboard symbols that is used to convey emotion (I use emoticons every time I text someone).

✅ A smiley is an icon, set of keyboard symbols, or simple drawing, which represents a smiling face (She ended the letter with a smiley).

✅ Emoticon and smiley mean similar things, though smiley refers more specifically to symbols that include a smiling face.

✅ You’re probably more familiar with the word emoji—but emojis aren’t limited to just facial expressions or expressing feelings.

✅ A gnome is a creature in folklore which is generally said to look like a very small, shriveled old man and to live inside the earth collecting and guarding treasures (I have a statue of a gnome on my bookshelf).

✅ A troll is a creature in folklore, too, and can be very small or very large. Trolls are often said to live in caves, in mountains, or under the earth (When I go hiking, I like to imagine that the rock formations are trolls).

✅ Trolls are creatures from Scandinavian folklore, and their name comes from Old Norse. The word gnome may have come from Greek originally.

✅ As is often the case with folklore, there are lots of different names for creatures that might be identical in some traditions but completely different in others. Some traditions might say that gnomes and trolls are different, and some might say the words refer to the same creature.