Common Confused Words
Commonly confusing words are the most important field of English vocabulary. everyone who speaks English has some confusion in different vocabulary words that looks same but have different meanings.
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Here is the list of most common words with confusion:
| Accede | to agree |
| Concede | to admit |
| Ascendant | rising |
| Ascendancy | controlling influence |
| Attenuate | to make thin or lean |
| Extenuate | mitigate; to lessen the gravity of an act |
| Avocation | subordinate occupation generally pursued for pleasure |
| Vocation | occupation, career |
| Beneficial | advantageous, useful |
| Beneficent | kind |
| Boldness | courage of transient nature |
| Courage | the quality that enable men to meet danger without fear |
| Capable | having ability or skill to do |
| Capacious | roomy |
| Collision | clash |
| Collusion | a secret agreement to deceive |
| Complacent | pleased, satisfied |
| Complaisant | obliging |
| Compliment | an expression to regard or praise |
| Complement | that which completes |
| Compensation | reward for service |
| Remuneration | reward |
| Complete | accomplish |
| Finish | to end |
| Confidant | one who is entrusted with secrets |
| Confident | fully assured |
| Conscious | aware of |
| Conscientious | one who acts according to the dictates of one’s conscience |
| Corporal | bodily |
| Corporeal | having a body or substance |
| Decry | to condemn |
| Descry | to discover by the eye |
| Deduce | to infer a truth or opinion from what precedes |
| Deduct | to subtract |
| Deliverance | act of delivering from evil or fear |
| Delivery | the act of speaking |
| Depreciate | to low in value |
| Deprecate | to express disapproval of some |
| Effectual | successful in producing the desired effect |
| Effective | having power to effect |
Common confused words List 2
| Exceptionable | to which exception can be taken |
| Exceptional | extraordinary |
| Excite | to stir up |
| Incite | to move the mind to action |
| Event | An occurrence of some importance not necessarily unexpected |
| Accident | unexpected happening |
| Farther | more far or distant |
| Further | additional |
| Factious | turbulent |
| Facetious | joking |
| Fetch | to go and get |
| Bring | taking something with one |
| Flagrant | glaring |
| Fragrant | sweet |
| Flee | to run away |
| Fly | to move through the air on wings or in an aircraft |
| Freedom | personal and private liberty |
| Liberty | public freedom |
| Genius | rare natural gifts |
| Talent | high mental ability or extraordinary capacity that is acquired |
| Gentle | polite |
| Genteel | well-bred |
| Goal | destination |
| Gaol | jail |
| Good | possessing desirable qualities |
| Goodly | large; graceful |
| Greed | desire for more than one needs |
| Avarice | love for money for its own sake |
| Hardly | with difficulty |
| Scarcely | hardly |
| Hasten | to move with speed |
| Hurry | to act with haste |
| Hate | to dislike intensely |
| Dislike | to be displeased with |
| Healthful | conducive to health |
| Healthy | possessing or enjoying health |
| Hope | to cherish pleasurable wishes |
| Expect | to look forward to as something about to happen |
| House | building intended for habitation |
| Home | the residence of family |
| Honorary | intended merely to confer honor |
| Honorable | worthy of Honor |
| Ill | out of health |
| Sick | disposed to vomit |
| Imaginary | unreal |
| Imaginative | given to imagining |
| Immunity | not liable to infection |
| Impunity | freedom from punishment or law |
| Literally
Actually |
whatever I say is literally true
he actually told a lie |
| Lonely | forsaken |
| Solitary | alone |
| Luxuriant | rich in growth |
| Luxurious | given to luxury |
| Mitigate | to make the burden mild punishment |
| Alleviate | to light the burden |
| Momentary | lasting only for a moment |
| Momentous | of great importance |
| Neglect | willful omission of duty |
| Negligence | habitual omission of duty |
| Observance | performance |
| Observation | act of recognizing and nothing |
| Official | pertaining to an office |
| Officious | too forward in offering services |
| Part | a section or a division |
| Portion | share giving when something is distributed |
| Pair | a set of two persons or things |
| Couple | two persons of different sexes bound to each other |
| Persecute | to harass |
| Prosecute | to bring before a court |
| Polite | courteous |
| Politic | well devised |
| Popular | pleasing to the people |
| Populous | full of people |
| Practical | applying knowledge to some useful end and opposed to theoretical |
| Practicable | capable of being performed |
| Probable | that which is expected to happen |
| Possible | that which can happen |
| Quantity | the amount that can be measured |
| Number | the amount that can be counted |
| recollect | that which we have difficulty in recalling |
| remember | keep in mind |
| regret | to grieve at |
| Sorrow | pain of mind caused by a sense of loss |
| Resources | means of raising money |
| Recourse | a going to for aid or protection |
| Respectable | worthy of respect |
| Respectful | indicating respect |
| Scenery | a view of a landscape |
| Sight | a thing seen |
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| Scatter | to throw things in different directions |
| Spread | to cover a certain area with something |
| Shade | a spot sheltered from the sun |
| Shadow | patch of shade projection by a body |
| See | see is used for persons or things |
| Witness | witness is used for events or incidents |
| Sensual | one who indulges in animal appetites |
| Sensuous | pertaining to senses |
| Spacious | having ample room. |
| Specious | seeming right or true, but not really so |
| Sequel | result |
| Sequence | order of succession |
| Stimulant | increasing or existing vital action |
| Stimulus | that which urge a man on |
| Statue | an image |
| Statute | size |
| Suspense | state of indecision b |
| Suspension | withholding |
| Simulate | to pretend to be what one is not |
| Dissimulate | to hide what one is |
| Take | to take hold of thing ourselves |
| Receive | to accept delivery of a thing |
| Temperance | moderation |
| Temperament | disposition |
Commonly Confused Words List 5
| Temporary | lasting for a time only |
| Temporal | worldly |
| Tenor | general run or currency |
| Tenure | term |
| Testimony | oral or written statement |
| Evidence | information tending to establish fast |
| Timid | fearful, wanting courage |
| Cowardly | mean, base |
| Transpire | become known |
| Happen | occur |
| Trifling | of small importance |
| Trivial | a thing which is small in itself |
| Union | the stoke of different things being combined into one |
| Unity | oneness |
| Ugly | offensive to the eye |
| Awkward | ungraceful |
| Clumsy | ungainly |
| Veracity | greed |
| Verbal | oral |
| Verbose | wordy |
| Virtual | for practical purposes |
| Virtuous | having model goodness |
| Wave | move |
| Waive | relinquish or forego |
| Willing | disposed |
| Willful | obstinate |
| Wages | money way to workmen |
| Fee | some paid to a professional man |
| Salary | the money paid at regular intervals to officials, clerk, soldier |
| Income | total money earned or received |
| Wreck | ruin |
| Wreak | take vengeance upon enemy |
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