Find the meaning of the word: deliberately (Para 2)

'Deliberately' is an adverb showing that an action was carried out knowingly and with full intention, not by accident.

Concept

• It describes the manner of an action — intentional versus accidental — and is commonly tested in reading comprehension vocabulary.

Common mistakes

• Students sometimes link 'deliberately' to 'slowly' (from the everyday sense of 'deliberate pace'); in comprehension passages it almost always means 'on purpose/intentionally', not 'slowly'.

Real-world

• E.g., "She deliberately ignored the call" means she did so on purpose, not by mistake.