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Pretext vs Precocious - What's the difference?

pretext | precocious |

As a noun pretext

is a false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.

As a verb pretext

is to employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

As an adjective precocious is

characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.

pretext

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
    • The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When that metaphor proves untenable, he switches to insisting that women are like beer but that’s mainly as a pretext to drink until he passes out in a father-son bonding haze.}}

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    Verb

    (Pretexting) (en verb)
  • To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
    • The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.

    Synonyms

    * blag (UK)

    See also

    * (Social engineering)

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    precocious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2014
    • , date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Scotland’s most encouraging early source of an attacking threat was Andrew Robertson as the precocious left-back charged forward to good effect on a couple of occasions. }}
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    • Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
  • Exhibiting advanced skills at an abnormally early age.
    • The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four.

    Quotations

    * 1964 , , “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, Mary Poppins , Walt Disney *: Mary: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious / If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

    Synonyms

    * tranty

    Antonyms

    * altricious * serotinous

    See also

    * prodigy

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