🧲 Affinity
AFFINITY: A) infinity; B) aversion; C) indifference; D) kinship. Check your answer inside. 👉
Heads up: starting next week, every issue will end with a short quiz on the previous five words.
Five questions, multiple choice, answer key at the bottom. It should take you about a minute.
I’m adding it because of the way vocabulary actually sticks. Seeing a word once, even in a good sentence, won’t do it; you need to run into it again a few days later, and you need to pull it out of your own memory rather than just recognize it sitting on the page. That second, active part (the actual retrieval, not the review) is what the quiz is for.
So this week, read the words the way you always do. Next week you’ll see them again.
📚️ Definition of Affinity
Affinity (noun): a natural liking for someone, something, etc.: an affinity for animals. similarity, commonness, or agreement: affinity between two friends).
🗣️ Pronunciation of Affinity
IPA: əˈfɪn.ɪ.ti (See IPA key)
Phonetic: uh-FIN-ih-tee
📰 Examples of Affinity
Here are some examples of the word AFFINITY:
I have a weird affinity for rainy days, though it seems no one else likes them; to me, they are so cozy.
I wonder whether the French spoken by Canadians in Quebec creates a natural affinity for France and all things French.
Steve Irwin’s affinity for wildlife led him and his wife, Terri, to establish the conservation organization Wildlife Warriors in 2002.
🗣️ Common Collocations of Affinity
A collocation is a group of words often found together in usage, for example figment of one’s imagination, extenuating circumstances, or inclement weather.
natural affinity
affinity for
affinity with
feel an affinity
close affinity
affinity between
Quiz answer: D.