Showing posts with label seers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seers. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2012

sear, sere, seer

Sear or sear means means to burn or scorch the surface of something--
She put the steak on the grill and turned it over quickly, to sear it.
Sear the meat to seal in the juices.

Sere or sere ( rhymes with sear ) means means dry or withered, as dry land with dead grass or plants--
The drought left the garden sere and depressing to look at.
The landscape was sere and deserted looking; it hadn't rained in months.

Seer or seer ( rhymes with see her ) means a psychic or clairvoyant--
He gained a reputation as a seer by correctly predicting the outcome of the election.
She goes every week to a seer, convinced that the woman can predict the future.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The seer correctly predicted that the heat wave would sear the land, leaving everything withered and sere."

Note--"Sears", always capitalized, means the department store--
Let's stop at the Sears store.
"sears", without the capital letter, is the third person singular ( he, she, it ) form of "sear"--
She sears the steaks on the grill before broiling them.
Not to be confused with "seers", meaning more than one psychic--
The seers disagreed about the future.