✅ Cozy means pleasingly comfortable and restful (I felt so cozy in bed while the storm raged outside).

✅ Snug means comfortable and cozy and generally refers to places such as houses, rooms, and hotels (The room was snug and comfortable).

✅ Cozy and snug can be used interchangeably to suggest a place that is comfortable, restful, soothing, and warm.

✅ Snug especially can suggest that the place described does not have a lot of extra room, but in a comfortable rather than constricting way.

✅ Lug means to carry something, especially something heavy that requires a combination of lifting and dragging (I lugged the laundry basket downstairs).

✅ Tote means to carry something, especially on your back or in your arms (I didn’t want to have to tote my textbooks around all day).

✅ Lug and tote both suggest carrying something that is a bit awkward or difficult to manage.

✅ Lug suggests that the thing being carried is especially heavy and requires great effort to move, whereas tote emphasizes that you carry the item on your person.

✅ Dissonance refers to a harsh combination of sounds that don’t harmonize (I hated the dissonance of hearing so many instruments all together).

✅ Discord refers to a confused mishmash of sounds (The discord in the cafe was overwhelming).

✅ Dissonance and discord both refer to harsh and inharmonious sounds and combinations of sounds, but discord can also refer to disagreement, and dissonance can refer to incongruity between ideas.

✅ Both of these other meanings reflect the relationships between noises and sounds that discord and dissonance refer to (discord between friends; narrative dissonance).