Sunday, October 13, 2013

easily confused words


Some words are easily confused because they have similar pronunciations and spellings: quitequiet.
It is important to study the words and pay close attention to the way each is pronounced.

1.    quiet           shhh
2.    quite           completely, entirely
3.    finely          small pieces
4.    finally         at last
5.    except         leaving out
6.    accept         take what is offered
7.    than            in comparison with
8.    then            at that time
9.    since           happened before
10.  sense          your brain


11.  affect          to change, influence
12.  effect          a result
13.  from
14.  form          a paper to fill out
15.  later           coming after the expected time
16.  latter          being the second of two things referred to
17.  adapt          adjust to a change
18.  adopt          take as one’s own
19.  medal         Olympic gold
20.  metal          steel, iron

  Challenge Words
21.  personal      a persons
22.  personnel    workers
23.  proceeding  go on after stopping
24.  preceding    in front
25.  immigrate   enter a country to live
26.  emigrate     leave a country to live elsewhere

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