May 2, 2011

Is it "compliment" or "complement"?

These two words are easily misused.

Complement means "to supplement" or "make complete": Their two personalities complement each other.

Compliment means "to praise or congratulate": She received a compliment on her sense of fashion.

Linguist Robert Beard, editor of alphadictionary, offers this sentence to help us remember: "Anne Chovi received many compliments for selecting vegetables that

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