Is fritter a delicious fried pastry? Or what you did when you spent your inheritance on Botox and truffles? If contemporary means “belonging to the present time,” how come you can’t use it interchangeably with current, as in “Change the channel––the contemporary show is boring as all get out”?
Learn fritter, contemporary, and nine other context-sensitive words in a new list in the Test Prep category, Words You Need to See in the Wild.