Vocab Tadka : Creak vs Creek (Confusing Words)
Lets discuss the difference between confusing words Creak & Creek.
CREAK
| 1 | (n) | a squeaking sound Type: ‘noun.event’ Usage: ‘the creak of the floorboards gave him away’ Synonym: creaking, |
| 1 | (v) | make a high-pitched, screeching noise Type: ‘verb.perception’ Usage: ‘The door creaked when I opened it slowly’ Usage: ‘My car engine makes a whining noise’ Synonym: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine, |
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- Several times, waking up, she heard his groans and muttering, the creak of his bed, and the steps of Tikhon and the doctor when they turned him over.
- Stepping up out of the bike, I did n’t creak, I did n’t groan and my bum did n’t feel flat.
- Dorothy maintains that age is catching up with them, joints are beginning to creak, but they look pretty frisky to us !
CREEK
| 1 | (n) | a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) Type: ‘noun.object’ Usage: ‘the creek dried up every summer’ Synonym: brook, |
| 2 | (n) | any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma Type: ‘noun.person’ |
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