Monday, March 2, 2009

Word of the week/Vocabulary extension

The words of the week are affect & effect. Affect (verb) means "to influence" as in "the weather may have affected his attendance". Effect (noun) means "a consequence, upshot or outcome" as in "the effect of the drug" or "the effect of the legislation".
Source: Concise Oxford Thesaurus, 3rd ed. 2007.

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