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comportment  –  compartment

[slightly different middle vowel sound]

“Comportment” is ‘the behaviour, manner, conduct of someone’,

e.g.

He was not re-elected as the chairman of the committee because his comportment had not suited with his position. [i.e. he did not behave with dignity or show wisdom as was expected of a chairman]

“Compartment” is ‘one of the many parts or divisions into which some enclosed space is divided, as in a container or a railway carriage’,

several compartments to keep different things

e.g.

The train ticket examiner moves from compartment to compartment in the carriage checking passengers’ tickets.

railway compartments

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