Confusing Word List 1

ache, cash; caddie, caddy; calendar, calender, colander; calk, caulk; call, caul; callous, callus; Calvary, cavalry, cavalier; can, may, might; canapé, canopy; candid, candied; cane, Cain; cannon, canon, canyon; cant, can’t; canter, cantor; canvas, canvass; capitol, Capitol, capital; carat, caret, carrot, karat; careen, career; caries, carries; carol, carrel; carton, cartoon; casket, gasket; 0 cartridge, cartilage; cast, caste; casual, causal; catholic, Roman Catholic; caudal, caudle, coddle; cause, caws; cease, seize; -ceed, -sede, -cede; cede, seed; ceiling, sealing; cell, sell; cellar, seller; cement, concrete; censer, censor, censure, sensor; cent, scent, sent; cents, scents, sense, cense; cere, seer, sear; cereal, serial; cession, session; childish, childlike; champ, chomp; champagne, champaign; chance, chants; chanty, shanty; charted, chartered; chaste, chased; cheap, cheep; check, Czech; cheek, chic, sheik; chew, eschew; chews, choose, chose; chilly, chile [also chili or chilli]; choler, collar; choleric, caloric; choral, chorale, coral; circumscribed, circumspect; cite, site, sight; cinque, sink, sync.; clack, claque; clamber, clamor, clamour; classic, classical; claws, clause; clever, cleaver; clew, clue; click, clique, cliche; climacteric, climactic, climatic; climb, clime; clinch, clench; close, close, clothes; closure, cloture, cloister; cloths, close; coax, cokes;

coal, cole, kohl; coarse, course; coco, cocoa; collision, collusion; colonel, kernel; comma, coma; command, commend; commence, comments, commerce; commission, omission; common, vulgar; communicate, commute; complacent, complaisant; complement, compliment; complete, finished; complex, compound; comprehensible, comprehensive; compute, commute; concert, consort; conservation, conservative, Conservative, conserve; condone, condom, condominium; confidant, confidante, confident; confirm, conform; congregation, conjugation; connotation, denotation; connote, denote; conscience, conscious, conscientious; consecutive, successive; consequence, consequents; console, console; consonance, consonants; construction, destruction; consul, council, consel; contemptible, contemptuous; continuous, continual; continuance, continuation; controversial, contentious; converge, diverge; conversion, diversion; convince, persuade; convulsion, revulsion; coo, coup; coolly, coolie or cooly, coulee; coop, coupe or coupé; cops, copse; cord, chord, cored; core, corps, corpse; corespondent, correspondent; cornet, coronet; corporal, corporeal, corpulent; correspondence, correspondents; covert, overt; custom, habit; costume, custom; council, counsel; councilor, counselor; courier, currier; covet, covert, overt; coward, cowered; crape, crepe; crawl, trawl; creak, creek; crease, creese [also crease or kris]; credible, creditable, credulous, credulity; crevice, crevasse; crews, cruise; croak, crock; criterion, criteria; crocodile, alligator; croquet, croquette, crochet; cubical, cubicle; cue, queue; cure, curé; cursed, cursed; currant, current; customer, costumer; cyclone, hurricane, tornado; cygnet, signet; cymbal, symbol; Cyprus, cypress

daffynition, fictionary; dairy, diary; dam, damn; dammed, damned; dangle, tangle; days, daze; deadly, deathly; dear, deer; debar, disbar; decadence, decadents; decease, disease; deceased, diseased; decent, descent, dissent; decimate, destroy, demolish; decisive, incisive; decompose, discompose; decorum, propriety; decree, degree; deduce, deduct; defer, differ; deference, difference; defective, deficient; definite, definitive; defensive, defensible; defuse, diffuse; deign, Dane; delegate, relegate; denounce, renounce; dense, dents; dependence, dependents; deposition, disposition; depravation, deprivation; depraved, deprived; deprecate, depreciate; descendant, descendent; descent, dissent; desirable, desirous; desperate, disparate, desperado; dessert, desert, desert; desolate, dissolute; detract, distract; device, devise;

deviser, devisor, divisor; dew, do, due; diagnosis, prognosis; diced, minced; dictionary, glossary, thesaurus; dies, dice; diffident, dissident; differentiate, distinguish; digest, digest; digress, regress; diminish, minimize; dine, dyne; dingy, dinghy; dire, dyer; direct, erect; disapprove, disprove; disaster, holocaust, tragedy; disburse, disperse; discomfort, discomfit, disconcert; discreet, discrete; discuss, discus, cuss; disinterested, uninterested; dispassionate, unimpassioned; displace, misplace; disposal, disposition; dissidence, dissidents; distinct, distinctive; distracted, distrait, distraught; divers, diverse; divorce, divorcé, divorcee, divocée; divulge, disclose; doc, dock; doe, dough, do; does, does, doze; done, dun; dope, dupe; douse, dowse; dove, dove; draft, draught; droop, drupe; dual, duel; ducked, duct; dye, die; dyeing, dying; dynamic, dynamite

E earn, urn; earthly, earthy; eave, eve; either, ether; effective, efficient, effectual; egoism, egotism; egoist, egotist; egress, ingress; either ... or, neither ... nor; elegy, eulogy; elicit, illicit, licit; eligible, legible; elude, delude, deluge; elusive, delusive, illusive; emanate, eminent, imminent, immanent, immediate; emerge, emerse, immerge; emeritus, merit, meritorious; emersion, immersion; emigrate, immigrate; emit, omit; empathy, sympathy; ensure, insure; entry, entrée; envelop, envelope; envy, covet, desire; epidemic, endemic, pandemic; epigram, epigraph; epitaph, epithet;

equable, equitable; erasable, irascible; errant, arrant; erratum, errata; erotic, exotic; eruption, irruption; essay, assay; etymology, entomology; euphemism, dysphemism, cacophemism; evoke, invoke; evolution, revolution; evolve, devolve; exceed, excel; exceptional, exceptionable; exercise, exorcise; exhaustive, exhausting, exhaustible; expand, expend; expanse, expense; expedience, expedients; explicit, implicit; expletive, explicative, epithet; explosion, implosion; expose, esposé; expostulate, postulate; extant, extent; extemporaneous, impromptu; extort, export; extract, excerpt; extraneous, intrinsic; exude, exclude; eyelet, islet