CONSTRAIN or CONSTRAINT?

English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)

CONSTRAIN or CONSTRAINT?

Constrain: (verb) compel or force someone to follow a course of action: This book will constrain you.
Constraint: (noun) a limitation or restriction: Time constraint didn’t let me do everything.

This also applies to restrain and restraint.

TASK

1. If you won’t act within your financial __, then, you will __yourself from getting your basic needs (restrain, restraint).
2. The main _ will be financial incapability but if you’ve got the will, _ may even __ you towards the path of financial independence (constrain, constraint).
   GAB