Tuesday, December 13, 2016

regent, reagent

Regent or regent means a university officer --
He is a regent of the university; we should tell him about the problems in the dorm.
He gave up his post as regent when his son became a student here.

Regent also means someone who rules in the place of a king or queen, while the king or queen is absent, incapacitated, or too young --
When the young king was old enough to rule, the regent refused to give up the throne.
The duke will rule as regent until the king returns.

Reagent or reagent means a substance used to produce a chemical reaction --
This reagent will help us to make a synthetic version.
We can used this reagent to test for the presence of the toxin.

Now that you know that, you can say --
"He developed a well-known reagent while working in our research department; now he is a regent of the university."

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