Commonly confusing words

Advice (N) – Guidance or recommendation offered about prudent future action.

Advise (v)-   To offer someone suggestions about the best course of action.

 

Allusion (N)- An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning

Illusion (N)- An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.

 

Amoral (Adj) – Lacking a moral sense

Immoral (Adj)- Something against preestablished morals, ethics, or standard social practices.

 

Effect (v)- To have an impact on something

Effect (v)- A change resulting from something

 

Averse (Adj)- Strongly dislike or opposed to something

Adverse (Adj) - Unfavorable or harmful

 

Biannual(adj) - Occurring twice a year

 Biennial (adj)- Occurring once every two years

 

Breath (N)- The air that we take into our lungs and send out again

 Breathe (V) – To take air into our lungs and send it out again through our nose or mouth

 

Choose (v)- To decide which thing or person we want out of the ones

Chose (v)- Past form of choose

 

Climatic (Adj) -Connected with the climate of a particular area

 Climactic (Adj)- (of an event or a point in time) very exciting, most important

Collaborate (V)- to work together with somebody to produce or achieve something

Corroborate(V) – to provide evidence or information that supports a statement, theory, etc.

 

 

Conscience (N)- the part of our mind that tells us whether our actions are right or wrong

 Conscious (Adj)- aware of something

 

Convince(V)- to make somebody believe that something is true

 Persuade(V)- to make somebody agree to do something by giving them good reasons for doing it

 

Desert (N) – a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it

Dessert(N) – sweet food eaten at the end of a meal

 

Device (N)- an object or a piece of equipment that has been designed to do a particular job: a tracking/listening/ recording device.

Devise (V)- to invent something new or a new way of doing something new

 

Emigrate(V)- to leave one’s own country to go and live permanently in another country

 Immigrate(v)- to come and live permanently in a country after leaving one’s own country.

 

Flaunt (V)- to show something one is proud of to other people to impress them

Flout(V)- to show that you have no respect for a law, etc., by openly not obeying it