Learn a new (English) word

Thanks for the word zingy.

Here's my sentence:
His remarkable cognizance and amiable nature made him very popular amongst his colleagues.

 

Amiable is used to describe people or expressions and means “appearing pleasant, agreeable, and friendly”: an amiable mood, an amiable smile.

Amicable is used to describe arrangements or agreements and means “showing friendly goodwill”: The two sides reached an amicable agreement. They settled their differences in an amicable manner.

Amiable refers for example to someone's personality and suggests a friendly and pleasant manner - in a sense likeable. Amicable refers to things like arrangements and agreements that are favourable to both sides in the agreement or arrangement. You can come to an amicable agreement with someone where you and the other person both benefit without anything actually being written down. It's a sort of favourable deal

You may find difficulty to differentiate between the two words in those cases when amicable is applied to people, in the meaning:
amicable - Characterized by or exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; friendly. (c)

It would be better to avoid the word amicable to describe a person. Amicable would have to refer to things like attitude, arrangement, behaviour, approach but not with direct reference to the person.

Another word with similar meaning to amiable is affable.
Affable

1. Easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable.​

2. Gentle and gracious​

an affable smile.​

References: Englishtest.net, Wordmaster - Tradition & Transformation

 

Nice to know there are appreciators. I was initially put down by the small amount of participants here. I hope everyone who visits the thread would share their own sentence using the word of the day.

I'm no expert in English, so I dont try to define the chosen by myself. I use references for definitions, but I always make it a point to post my own sentences using the chosen word of the day. When I started the thread, I was hoping everyone who visits it would post their usage of the chosen word

 

It would be an honour if had someone with erudition of the English language following this thread

Being influenced by negative criticism to bring out the better is more acceptable than being completely unassailable to it.

 

New word: embezzle

Meaning: to appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

Sentence: Sadly, it's quite common for leased land users to embezzle the property from the government in Kerala.