Friday, April 6, 2012

click, clique

Click or click means the small noise made by a device such as a light switch, or a computer mouse--
If you click the right side of the mouse you will get a menu.
He froze when he heard the light switch click.

Clique or clique is a word we borrowed from the French. We pronounce it to rhyme with click; the French pronounce it "cleek". A clique is a small group of people who are friends or associates--a group that excludes anyone not a member--
In high school, he spent four years trying to be accepted into the most popular clique.
They belonged to the same clique for years, and rarely spoke to anyone else.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"With social media, chatting with the clique is only a click away."

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