Confusing Word List 2

, an; abdicate, abrogate, arrogate, derogate, delegate, delicate; abdication, addiction; Abel, able, -able; ability, capacity; abjure, adjure; ablution, absolution; abridged, unabridged, expurgated; abuse, misuse; accede, exceed; accelerate, exhilarate; accelerator, exhilarator; accept, except, expect; access, excess, assess; accessing, assessing; accidental, incidental, accidentally, accidently; acclamation, acclimation; acronym, anagram; acts, ax or axe; acumen, acute, acuity; ad, add; adapt, adept, adopt; addition, edition; adds, ads, adz or adze; adduce, deduce; adhesion, cohesion, adherence, adherents; adjourn, adjoin; admission, admittance; adolescence, adolescents; adverse, averse; advice, advise; aerie, airy, eerie or eery; affect, effect; affinity, infinity; affluence, affluents, influence; agenda, addenda, addendum; aggravate, exasperate, irritate, annoy; agnostic, atheist, deist, theist; aid, aide; ail, ale; air, err, heir; aisle, isle, I’ll; all, awl; alley, ally; allowed, aloud; all ready, already; all right, all-right, alright; all together, altogether;

allude, elude, refer; allusion, illusion, delusion, elusion; all ways, always; altar, alter; alternate, alternative; alumnus, alumni, alumna, alumnae; amateur, novice, neophyte, tyro; amend, emend; amiable, amicable; among, between; amoral, immoral; amused, bemused; angel, angle; angry, mad; anguish, languish; annalist, analyst; annalize, analyze; annul, annual, perennial; antagonist, protagonist; ante-, anti-; antecedence, antecedents; antidote, anecdote; aphasia, amnesia; aplomb, a plum; apposite, opposite; appraise, apprise; appreciate, depreciate; apprehend, comprehend; arbitrate, mediate; area, aria; ark, arc; arrange, arraign; artist, artiste; ascension, assumption; ascent, assent, accent; ascetic, acetic; ask, ax; ass, asinine; assassin, assailant; assassinate, assault, assail; assimilate, simulate; assistance, assistants; assume, presume; assure, insure; astrology, astronomy; ate, eight; attendants, attendance; auger, augur; aught, ought, naught; aunt, ant; aureole, oriole; avenge, revenge; aver, avert, evert, divert; aviary, apiary; award, reward; away, aweigh; awful, offal

babble, bable; bad, badly, bade; bald, bawled; bale, bail; ball, bawl; ballet, ballot, ballad; balm, bomb; band, banned; bands, banns, bans; barbaric, barbarous, barbarian, barbarism; bard, barred; bare, bear; baring, barring, bearing; baron, barren; baroness, barrenness; base, bass, bass; based, baste; basis, bases; Bastille, bastion; bat, batt; bate, bait; bath, bathe; batted, bated, baited; bazaar, bizarre; be, bee, BB; beach, beech; beau, bow; beer, bier; been, bin; beet, beat; beetle, betel; believe, feel; bell, belle; bellow, billow; benevolence, benediction, malevolence, malediction; beneficent, beneficial; berry, bury; berth, birth; beside, besides; better, bettor; biannual, biennial; bigamy, polygamy, monogamy; bigoted, biased, intolerant, prejudiced; bisect, dissect; bisk, bisque; billed, build;

bite, byte; blatant, flagrant; blew, blue, bleu; bloc, block; blond, blonde; boar, bore, boor, Boer; board, bored; boarder, border; boat, ship; bode, bowed; bogey, bogy; bold, bowled; bolder, boulder; boll, bowl; boors, bourse; boos, booz; born, borne; bourgeois, proletariat; boy, buoy; bow, bough; boy, buoy; braid, brayed; brake, break; braze, braise, brays; breach, breech; bread, bred; breath, breathe, breadth; brews, bruise; bridal, bridle; brief, short; bring, take; Britain, Briton, Breton; broach, brooch; brochure, leaflet, pamphlet; brood, brewed; brows, browse; buccal, buckle; bullion, bouillon; bump, thump; bungle, bundle; burley, burly; burrow, burro, borough; bus, buss; bust, burst; but, butt; buy, by, bye, bi-; bi-, semi-