List of commonly confused words: aberrant vs abhorrent aberrant means abnormal or untypical abhorrent means repugnant or loathsome accept vs except accept means take, receive, or tolerate except means other than; apart from adduce vs deduce adduce means mention something as evidence or proof deduce means reach a conclusion by reasoning or evidence adapt vs adopt adapt means alter for new use adopt means take on or assume something advice vs advise advice means recommendation or counsel advise means offer advice to someone affect vs effect affect means influence or change something effect means result; produce a result afflict vs inflict afflict means give pain or grief to inflict means impose something unpleasant on affluent vs effluent affluent means rich effluent means liquid waste allude vs elude allude means refer to indirectly elude means escape from, especially by cleverness allusion vs illusion allusion means passing reference illusion means false appearance; mistaken belief alternate vs alternative alternate means occurring by turns alternative means thing done or had instead of something else; choice amend vs emend amend means change or correct emend means edit or correct a text among vs between among means in the midst of between means in the middle of two points amoral vs immoral amoral means without moral standards, principles or rules immoral means transgressing moral rules ante- vs anti- ante- means before anti- means against appraise vs apprise appraise means assess the value, quality or worth of something apprise means make someone aware of something assure vs insure assure means promise or guarantee ensure means make certain aural vs oral aural means of or relating to the ears or hearing oral means spoken; (of a drug) taken by mouth biannual vs biennial biannual means twice a year biennial means every two years blatant vs flagrant blatant means glaringly obvious flagrant means openly outrageous climactic vs climatic climactic means pertaining to a climax climatic means pertaining to climate complacent vs complaisant complacent means self-satisfied complaisant means willing to please conscience vs conscious conscience means sense of right or wrong conscious means alert and awake defuse vs diffuse defuse means remove tension (from); calm diffuse means spread out; scattered desert vs dessert desert means dry or lifeless region dessert means sweet food served after a main course disinterested vs uninterested disinterested means detached or impartial; unbiased uninterested means indifferent; unconcerned; apathetic ensure vs insure ensure means make certain something happens insure means take cover against loss or damage of something envelop vs envelope envelop means cover or surround something envelope means paper covering a letter flaunt vs flout flaunt means show off; boast; brandish flout means defy; disregard; spurn flounder vs founder flounder means falter, struggle or make mistakes founder means sink; break down or fail glance vs glimpse glance means look rapidly or briefly glimpse means brief, incomplete view historic vs historical historic means important or significant historical means pertaining to history ingenious vs ingenuous ingenious means skilful; clever; original ingenuous means honest or sincere; naive intense vs intensive intense means of great strength or degree intensive means using concentrated effort or resources intensely vs intently intensely means in an intense way intently means closely or attentively lay vs lie lay means put, place (something somewhere) lie means recline, rest, or lounge lightening vs lightning lightening means becoming less dark lightning means electrical discharge in the sky loath vs loathe loath means unwilling, opposed to, averse loathe means hate, despise, abhor loose vs lose loose means not firmly held lose means misplace something; be defeated luxuriant vs luxurious luxuriant means rich and abundant or elaborate. It is mostly used in reference to hair or vegetation! luxurious means something that is expensive, comfortable, and sumptuous personal vs personnel personal means belonging to a particular person personnel means people who work for an organization practicable vs practical practicable means possible; feasible practical means sensible; pragmatic; realistic precede vs proceed precede means happen before something else proceed means start or continue to do something prescribe vs proscribe prescribe means order something; write a prescription proscribe means ban or forbid something rout vs route rout means overwhelming defeat route means road or path chosen to reach a destination sceptic vs septic sceptic means person who doubts what others believe septic means infected with poison there vs their vs theyre there is used to say that something does or does not exist, to show position or direction their is used to indicate that something belongs to a group of people or things they’re is a contraction of they are tortuous vs torturous tortuous means curved, twisted or winding; deceptive torturous means causing pain or torment; pertaining to torture venal vs venial venal means easily bribed; mercenary; corrupt venial means easily forgiven; pertaining to a minor sin weather vs whether weather means the condition of the atmosphere in one area at a particular time, i.e. what it is like outside whether is a word you use when you are talking about a choice or doubt between two or more alternatives wander vs wonder wander means walk around in a casual way wonder means be amazed at something
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:39:16 +0000
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