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comportment — compartment
[slightly different middle vowel sound]
“Comportment” is ‘the behaviour, manner, conduct of someone’,
e.g.
He was not re-elected as the chairman of the committee because his comportment had not suited with his position. [i.e. he did not behave with dignity or show wisdom as was expected of a chairman]
“Compartment” is ‘one of the many parts or divisions into which some enclosed space is divided, as in a container or a railway carriage’,
- several compartments to keep different things
e.g.
The train ticket examiner moves from compartment to compartment in the carriage checking passengers’ tickets.
- railway compartments
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