✅ Period refers to any interval of time that is important, either to a person or people or to history in general, because of something specific about that time (a period of political unrest). It can also refer to a defined section of time (the Tudor period).
✅ Season generally refers to a period of the year characterized by particular conditions of weather, a period in which a natural product or crop is available, or a period in which a certain event takes place (the Christmas season; the football season; blackberry season; the rainy season).
✅ Season can be used to refer to any section of time (The season of her childhood), but when used in this way can sound literary or old-fashioned. However, it wouldn’t refer to a defined section of time. For that, you would use period (the period between August 2020 and November 2021).
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✅ Bright and scintillating both describe people and things that are lively, witty, and clever (a bright and interesting person; a scintillating performance).
✅ Bright doesn’t always suggest all these meanings together: sometimes it may describe someone witty, and sometimes it may describe someone lively and animated (a bright and eager student).
✅ Scintillating is a much less common word than bright, and generally suggests someone or something particularly witty or particularly animated, and often but not always implies that both these qualities are being shown at the same time (The speech was absolutely scintillating).
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✅ Late describes something that happens or comes about after it was supposed to (A late assignment; A late spring).
✅ Last-minute describes something that happens right before or right at the deadline, or at the very last moment it could have (A last-minute announcement; A last-minute change to the schedule).
✅ Something last-minute is almost, but not quite, late. Late suggests that something happened after the deadline (You handed that paper in last-minute! I thought you’d be late!).
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