✅ Pride refers to a high opinion of your own dignity or importance (I have some pride, and I won’t be spoken to like that).

✅ Self-respect refers to having respect, esteem, or regard for yourself (It’s important to have some self-respect).

✅ Having pride or self-respect suggests that you know your own worth and value and won’t allow yourself to be compromised or disrespected.

✅ Pride can also refer to an unhealthy level of self-confidence or an exaggerated sense of what you deserve. In that sense, it’s different from self-respect, which is more neutral.

Work on your self-respect by writing a list of your good qualities with the help of Grammar Coach.

✅ Show means to exhibit or display something or otherwise cause something to be seen (Let me show you the way to the bathroom; I’m going to show my art at the gallery).

✅ Present means to put on or exhibit something (We will present the new film next week).

✅ Present and show both mean to cause something to be seen, but present suggests a higher level of formality or importance than show.

Let us present to you these other synonyms!

✅ Pretense refers to a false show or demonstration of something (The gift was a pretense of friendship).

✅ Semblance refers to an assumed or unreal appearance (Patting him on the back was only a semblance of sympathy).

✅ Pretense emphasizes falseness and pretending, while semblance suggests giving a certain impression which is generally false or pretend but which may be made in good faith (They tried to maintain a semblance of order).

Write about a time you gave a semblance of respect to someone with the help of Grammar Coach.