+35 Commonly Confused Words and Meanings
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 |
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 |