Vocab Tadka : Enervate vs Innervate (Confusing Words)
Lets discuss the difference between confusing words Enervate & Innervate .
ENERVATE
| 1 | (v) | weaken mentally or morally Type: ‘verb.change’ |
| 2 | (v) | disturb the composure of Type: ‘verb.emotion’ Synonym: faze, unnerve, unsettle, |
Sentence Usage : To learn the word better write your sentence in comment below
- For indeed I have felt the enervating effects upon the mind of reading in succession several works of the lighter class.
- It was the enervating heat of the afternoon, perhaps the soporific effect of the bathing session, or maybe something else entirely.
How to Remember : Enervate –> Never ate –> If you never ate you’d be weakened.
INNERVATE
| 1 | (v) | supply nerves to (some organ or body part) Type: ‘verb.possession’ |
| 2 | (v) | stimulate to action Type: ‘verb.change’ Usage: ‘innervate a muscle or a nerve’ |
Sentence Usage : To learn the word better write your sentence in comment below
- The nervous system is represented by an oesophageal collar and a suboesophageal ganglion, whence paired nerves pass outwards to innervate the anterior extremity and backwards towards its posterior end.
- The action of atropine in dilating the pupil is also aided by a stimulation of the fibres from the sympathetic nervous system, which innervate the remaining muscle of the iris – the dilator pupillae.
- A pair of cerebral ganglia lie on the dorsal side of the oesophagus: they innervate the proboscis or head and its tentacular lobes and captacula.
How to Remember : Enervate means energy vacate, i.e lack of energy. Innervate means opposite, to energize
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