Divers vs Diverse

Divers vs Diverse

Divers – the plural of diver – a diver is a person who dives (a swimming activity where the person jumps into the water head first) as a profession or occupation.

For e.g.:

1. The local swimming pool has employed an Olympic diver as the swimming coach.

2. Many divers have discovered broken parts of boats off the coast.

Diverse – having a great deal of difference or variation; usually used to indicate variety in a group

For e.g.:

1. New York boasts of a culturally diverse population.

2. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru often said that India had unity in her diversity.

Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks with the right word

1.The police sent a group of _________(divers/diverse) to look for the car that had fallen in the pond.
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2.The mall’s food court serves a ________ (divers/diverse) choice of cuisines.
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3.Savitha is using ___________ (divers/diverse) samples for her research.
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4. My friend dropped his expensive camera in the river, he has asked some _________ (divers/diverse) to fish it out for him.
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5. Manoj has a wide and ___________ (divers/diverse) social circle.
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