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Life Insurance and Life Assurance perform different financial roles and are poles apart in cost

Life Insurance provides you with insurance cover for a specific period of time

Life Assurance is different. It is a hybrid mix of investment and insurance. A Life Assurance policy pays out a sum equal to the higher of either a guaranteed minimum underwritten by the policy's insurance provisions or its investment valuation.

American quite means ‘very’, while British quite means ‘somewhat’.

day by day - gradually and progressively

day after day - for an indefinite number of successive days

Some are interchangeable, depending on context, while some are not.

quod erat demonstrandum is a translation into Latin from the Greek ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι (hoper edei deixai; abbreviated as ΟΕΔ)

translating the Greek phrase ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι produces a slightly different meaning. Since the verb "δείκνυμι" also means to show or to prove,[2] a better translation from the Greek would read, "what was required to be proved."[3]

Q.E.D. is sometimes jokingly claimed to abbreviate "quite easily done".

assurance is the provision of cover for an event that is certain to happen

to inquire is to investigate as in 'the policeman made inquiries'.

Enquiry is used for a general question. Inquiry is used for a formal question. Friends enquire "where were you last night"?...the Police Inquire "where were you last night"?

Purpose defines why the person is doing something he is doing, what is his reasoning behind doing a particular thing and what he plans to achieve from it.

The term objective refers to set tasks or goals that a person wishes to accomplish.

purpose: what you want to achieve when you do something; the reason you do or plan something, and the thing you want to achieve when you do it

aim: something you hope to achieve by doing something

goal: something important that you hope to achieve in the future, even though it may take a long time

attached section to the house which is open to the outside air and is covered with a roof.

A porch is basically an attached section to the house which is open to the outside air and is covered with a roof.

A balcony is a small platform that protrudes from a wall of an upper apartment floor and is usually enclosed by a railing.

foreword (one of the most often misspelled words in the language) is most often written by someone other than the author

In a preface an author explains briefly why they wrote the book, or how they came to write it.

If a preface is about the book as a book, the introduction is about the content of the book. Sometimes it is as simple as that: It introduces what is covered in the book.

talisman is believed to bring luck or some other benefit, though it can offer protection as well.

overall , ill is more serious, sick is more trivial.But non-humans tend only to be sick eg a sick cow, a sick joke, a sick economy.

The british Island has been invaded by several european peoples, but not at the same time. Each time there were like 500 years in between, so the languages of the invaders had time to spread and develop. "sick" is a saxon word (to this very day the dutch word is siek, the local northwest-german word is siech). "ill" is a skandinavian word, it means "bad" and also "sick". The word came with the Normans to Britain, about 500 years after the Saxons had taken the island.

Actually, "mal" is the same french word!

Before a noun, many British people prefer to use sick.

sick sounds just like a "bad" word in Turkish

Business and manufacturing practice An SOP is a written document or instruction detailing all steps and activities of a process or procedure.

used in a variety of different contexts, such as healthcare, education, industry or the military.

A horoscope is an astrological document that describes the personality traits of the subject and also divines or forecasts his future at a given moment as determined by the ruling planet of his zodiac sign.