Difference
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To distinguish or differentiate.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The quality of being different. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. A disagreement or argument. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
Example sentence: You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Departure
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the act of departing or something that has departeda deviation from a plan or procedurea deaththe distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian
Example sentence: While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.