Confused Words Flashcards

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Accept

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Receive

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A lot

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This word is always two words and means many.

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Except

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“But for” “other than”

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Affect

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To influence (verb), feeling or emotion

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Effect

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Result, to bring about, noun

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All Ready

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completely prepared

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Already

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by now or before now

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All Right

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all right is always two words alright is a common spelling error

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Allusion

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indirect refernce

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Illusion

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deceptive apperarence, thinking something that is not true

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Anxious

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nervous or worried (most commonly followed by about)

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Eager

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means looking forward (most commonly followed by too)

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As

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prefered as or as if, use this over like

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Like

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not the best choice in most situations, try to use as or as if

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Bad

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Bad is an adj, had a bad vacation, smels bad, feels bad, looks bad

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Badly

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This is an adverb, linking verbs always take bad

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Because

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Use this over an abbreviations that might be used

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Bimonthy

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Every two months

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Biweekly

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Every two weeks

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Semimonthly

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happening twice a month

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Semiweekly

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happening twice a week

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Compliment

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A flattering remark about something

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Complement

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is to add to, complete, or reinforce something

*Complimentary can also mean free

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Continual

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Constanly Recurring

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Continuous
without end/ unceassing some movies you can watch continus without commericals
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Counsel
an advisor attorney and their advice/ to advise
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Council
a group of deliberators
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Consul
representaive reping your country in a foreign government
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Discreet
"Tactful" What's a discreet way to tell Mary to be quiet?
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Discrete
Seperate and Distinct/ Millions of discrete bits of information
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Either
Either is for singular purposes/ either is a good candate
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Neither
used for plural purposes, but neither speaks well
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Emigrate
Leave one Place and Move to Another/ migrate out of
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Immigrate
To move to a place where one was not born/ migrate into
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Fewer
Individual Countable Items, a plural count noun/ Skim milk has fewer calories than whole milk.
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Less
Refers to general ammounts/ We have less milk than I thought.
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Hanged
Hanged is only used to refer to a type of execution
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Hung
This is used all other times that do not involve an execution
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Have
Use have or of after helping verbs (could, should, would, may, and might)
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Of
Use have not of
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Infer
Infer means to conclude
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Imply
Means to suggest
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Irregardless
This is not a real word!
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Its
just its
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It's
It is
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Lay
means to put or place lay, laid, and laid
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Lie
means to recline or be situated main forms are lie lay and lain
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Leave
Depart, most commonly interchangable
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Let
means to allow, most commonly interchangable
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Medium
Use Media
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Media
Use this word
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Prejudice
Noun/
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Prejudiced
Adjective
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Proof
Thoughts from evidence to establish a point beyond doubt
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Evidence
Proof comes from evidence
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Respective
unecessary
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Shall/will
Shall is for first person questions
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Should/would
Formal usage is ambiguous would be happy
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Slow
What is most commonly on the street
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Slowly
Use this form in all writing
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Their
Ownership
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They're
They are
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There
Indicates a place
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Then
Then is an adverb indecating time
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Than
Than is a conjunction for comparisons
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Until
This is the formal word you can also use till if you deem it necessary
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To
Preposition
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Two
Means the number two
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Too
also exvessively
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Usage
Refers to language conventions
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Use
Is the word that is most commonly mixed up with usgae, unless a language/ grammar convention use use
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Your
Possesive form of yoy
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You're
You Are
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Allude
To make and indirect reference
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Elude
means to evade or to excape understanding or attention
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Ascent
the act of rising or climbing
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Assent
an agreement
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Definitely
having certain limits
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defiantly
Marked by defiance boldy resisting
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Formerly
at an earlier time
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Formally
in a formal way
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Inenious
extremely clever, marked by inventive skill and imagenation
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Ingenuous
straigtnorward, candid
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Lose
not to win
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Loose
not tight
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Passed
past and past participle of the word pass
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Past
means a previous time ago or beyone
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Personal
private indiviual
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Personnel
employess or an organization
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Presents
gifts or presents
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presence
Like idk presence
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Quite
very actually
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quiet
silence
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quit
to leave
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Stationary
One Place
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Stationery
Writing materials
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Unanimous
in full agreement
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Anonymous
someone whose name is unknown
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Whether
this or this
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Weather
like actual weather forcasts
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Which
either one
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Witch
a mythical person
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Who's
who is
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Whose
ownership