+20 Commonly Confused Words, Meaning and Examples
Word | Meaning | Word | Meaning |
accept | Receive | Except | Leave out |
Advice | Guidance or recommendations | Advise | To offer suggestions about best |
Affect | Influence | Effect | Result |
Allowed | Permitted | Aloud | Clearly heard |
Allude | Make indirect reference | Elude | Escape from something |
Ate | Past tense of eat | Eight | The number |
Break | Smash, split | Brake | Stopping device |
By | Preposition | Buy | Purchase |
Capital | City, wealth | Capitol | Building |
Coarse | Rough | Course | Way or path |
Emigrate | leave one country or region to settle in another | Immigrate | enter another country reside there |
Ensure | Guarantee | Insure | Financial liability |
Farther | Physical distance | Further | Abstract idea |
fewer | is used with nouns that can be counted | less | is used with nouns that cannot be counted |
Word | Meaning | Word | Meaning |
For | Preposition | Four | The number |
Forth | Forward | Fourth | Comes after third |
Hear | Perceive | Here | In this place |
Loose | Free | Lose | Misplace |
Peace | Absence of war | Piece | Part, portion |
Plain | Simple | Plane | Flat surface |
Principle | Rule | Principal | Chief person |
Quiet | Silent | Quite | Really, positively |
Stationary | Not moving | Stationery | Writing paper |
Than | comparison | Then | At that time |
To | In the direction of | Too | Also |
Weak | Feeble | Week | Seven days |
Weather | Atmospheric conditions | Whether | If, in case |
which | what one | witch | sorceress |