Tuesday, January 15, 2013

grisly, grizzly

Grisly or grisly means gory or gruesome--
Even the reporters were sickened by the grisly scene.
The description of the crime conjured up a grisly image in his mind.

Grizzly or grizzly ( rhymes with grisly ), meaning gray, or streaked with gray,  is a type of American brown bear--
The campers were sure they saw a grizzly bear, so they moved to a new campsite.
He got a good shot of a grizzly fishing in a stream.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The grizzly attack on the hiker left a grisly scene."

Note--"gristly" means having a lot of cartilage or "gristle", said of meat--
They complained to the waiter because the steaks were gristly.

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