• Confusables

  • adverse | averse

  • advise | advice

  • affect | effect

  • allude | mention

  • allusion | illusion

  • alot | a lot

  • alright | all right

  • alternately | alternatively

  • amoral | immoral

  • appraise | apprise

  • augur | auger

  • author | co-author

  • beside | besides

  • bimonthly | semi-monthly

  • capital | Capitol

  • censure | censor

  • cite | site

  • climactic | climatic

  • compare to | compare with

  • complacent | complaisant

  • complement | compliment

  • comprise | compose

  • connotation | denotation

  • continuous | continual

  • council | counsel

  • councillor | counsellor

  • credible | credulous

  • crescendo | climax

  • definite | definitive

  • defuse | diffuse

  • desert | dessert

  • different from | different to

  • discreet | discrete

  • disinterested | uninterested

  • egoism | egotism

  • emigrant | immigrant

  • enclave | exclave

  • envelop | envelope

  • exceptionable | exceptional

  • fatalism | pessimism

  • fawn | faun

  • figurative | literal

  • flammable | inflammable

  • flaunt | flout

  • flounder | founder

  • foreword | forward

  • grisly | grizzly

  • hanged | hung

  • historic | historical

  • hoard | horde

  • i.e. | e.g.

  • if | whether | when

  • imply | infer

  • loath | loathe

  • loose | lose

  • luxuriant | luxurious

  • militate | mitigate

  • officious | official

  • Oh | O

  • ordinance | ordnance

  • palate | palette

  • penultimate | ultimate

  • perquisite | prerequisite

  • perspicuous | perspicacious

  • practice | practise

  • premiss | premise

  • preventive | preventative

  • principal | principle

  • regretful | regrettable

  • shall | will

  • shear | sheer

  • stationary | stationery

  • titillate | titivate

  • tortuous | torturous

  • turbid | turgid

  • unexceptionable | unexceptional

  • venal | venial