" Sociable means companionable;
social applies to the relations of men in society; as social duties,
social pleasures, social interests.
Specialty, Speciality
These words are interchangeable, but the former is the better word.
Requirement, Requisition, Requisite
While these words have something in common, each has a meaning
peculiar to itself. Requirement
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means that which is required as an essential condition, or as
something necessary; requisition, that which is required as of right,
a demand or application made as by authority; requisite, that which is
required by the nature of things, or by circumstances, that which
cannot be dispensed with. "She understood the nature of the child and
of its requirements." "The officer made a requisition for more
troops." "This is as much a requisite as food and clothing."
Sick, Ill
There is a growing tendency to discriminate between sickness and
illness, limiting the words sick and sickness to some slight
disturbance of the physical system, as nausea, and applying the words
ill and illness to protracted disease and disordered health.
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