✅ Comfort means to reassure and soothe someone, especially so that they feel more cheerful (She watched her favorite TV program to comfort herself).

✅ Console means to soothe someone experiencing extreme distress, in a way that helps them to calm down (I consoled him after he was laid off).

✅ Both comfort and console refer to helping someone deal with painful and difficult feelings, like disappointment, sadness and grief (I tried my best to comfort them; She hoped her words consoled him).

✅ However, comfort emphasizes making someone feel more cheered, whereas console emphasizes helping to alleviate the difficult feelings or helping someone to feel calm.

✅ Crunchy refers to something hard and brittle that cracks when pressure is put on it (icy, crunchy snow; crunchy vegetables).

✅ Crispy refers to something brittle and easily broken (I love the crispy chicken skin).

✅ Crispy particularly suggests something thin, whereas crunchy suggests something that makes a crunching sound while you eat it, no matter the thickness or texture (I love crêpes with crispy edges; I enjoy crunchy foods like popcorn and raw broccoli).

✅ Reinforce means to support or strengthen (The bad weather reinforced my decision to stay home).

✅ Buttress means to support, prop up, or encourage (She used evidence to buttress her argument).

✅ Both these words mean to support and make something stronger.

✅ Buttress emphasizes support, whereas reinforce emphasizes strength (This material will reinforce the elbow patches; I used scaffolding to buttress the crumbling wall).