40+ Confused words and their meanings | Confused English Words


Two: the number two
Too: also

Weak: poor, low, faint, thin, lean
Week: seven days

Break: smash, split
Brake: stopping device

Accept: receive
Except: leave out

Adverse: unfavourable or harmful
Adverse: strongly disliking or opposed to

Advice: guidance or recommendations
Advise: to offer suggestions about best

Affect: influence
Effect: result

Allowed: permitted
Aloud: clearly heard

By: preposition
Buy: purchase

Capital: city, wealth
Capitol: building

Canvas: strong type of cloth
Canvass: seek someone’s vote

Loose: free
Lose: misplace

Allude: make indirect reference
Elude: escape from something

To: in the direction of
Too: also

Ate: past tense of eat.
Eight: the number 8

Aural: relating to ears or hearing
Oral: relates to the mouth or spoken word

Bare: naked or to uncover
Bear: to carry or put up with something

Born: having started a life
Borne: carried

Bough: branch of a tree
Bow: front of a ship or to bend the head

Weather: atmospheric conditions
Whether: if, in case

Which: what one
Witch: sorceress

Who: subject
Whom: object

Palate: roof of the mouth
Palette: board for mixing colours

Peace: absence of war
Piece: part, portion

Plain: simple
Plane: flat surface

Pole: long, slender piece of wood
Poll: vote in an election

Principle: rule
Principal: chief person

Quiet: silent
Quite: really, positively

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

For: preposition
Four: the number

Forth: forward
Fourth: comes after third

Hear: perceive
Here: in this place

Illicit: not allowed by law or against rules
Elicit: draw out a reply or reaction

Immoral: not following moral standards
Amoral: unconcerned with right or wrong

Climatic: relating to climate
Climactic: creating a climax

Serial: happening in a series
Cereal: breakfast food or edible grain

Sight: ability to see
Site: location or place

Storey: level of a building
Story: tale or account

Stationary: not moving
Stationery: writing paper

Than: comparison
Then: at that time

Disinterested: impartial
Uninterested: not interested

Dual: having two parts
Duel: contest between two participants

Infer: draw a conclusion from
Imply: indirectly suggest something

Loathe: to hate someone or something
Loath: reluctant or unwilling

Tortuous: complex of full or twists
Torturous: suffering of full or pain

Coarse: rough
Course: way or path

Currant: dried grape
Current: happening now
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