✅ Strong describes having mental and physical power. Mental strength often includes traits like determination, stubbornness, or resilience (She’s a strong person).
✅ Tenacious describes being persistent, tough, and holding firmly to something, either literally or metaphorically (a tenacious reporter).
✅ Tenacious suggests a particular kind of strength, emphasizing being stubborn and persistent (It took a tenacious journalist to bring down the corrupt mayor).
✅ Strong is more general (We need a strong knight to defeat the dragon).
We’re tenacious: we’ll get you to take a look at some more synonyms eventually!
✅ Appropriately refers to doing something in a way that suits the circumstances (She was paid appropriately for her work).
✅ Judiciously refers to doing something in a way that shows wisdom and good judgment (We chose our candidates judiciously).
✅ Doing something appropriately can also require wisdom and judgment (They had a lot of kitchen tools, and designated the pantry shelves appropriately).
✅ However, judiciously suggests a greater degree of thought and judgment, above and beyond what is implied by appropriately (He judiciously selected the charities where he wanted to donate his money).
We know you’ll use these synonyms judiciously!
✅ A container is anything that can contain something else, such as a box, tub, or crate (We put the rest of the food in a container).
✅ A vessel is something hollow that generally holds a liquid, such as a cup or vase (They used a wooden vessel to carry water from the stream).
✅ A vessel is usually made of a single piece of material, while a container is anything that can hold something, and generally has a lid (We had a lot of glass vessels in the lab; I borrowed a plastic container from my friend so that I could take soup to work).
✅ Vessel in this sense can sound old-fashioned as now it is used more often to mean a boat or ship. When you get right down to it, a ship is just a different kind of container!
You’ll need a large container for all these synonyms for vessel!