If you can remember these two tricks, you should be able to use pique correctly by process of elimination. You can also think of the two “e’s” as being two eyes peeking at you. You can remember this because both words have two “e’s” in them. The two sides of the “A” look similar to that of a mountainside. There are a few good memory tools that can help you keep track of these words.įirst, if you visualize the word “peAk” as having a capital “A,” it sort of looks like a mountain peak. In this use, pique is acting as a transitive verb and therefore will take an object. When you pique something, you are exciting it. You piqued my interest when you mentioned pizza.
