31 Mayıs 2009 Pazar

Confusing Word List 4

macrocosm, microcosm;
madam, madame;
magnet, magnate;
maid, made;
mail, male;
main, mane, Maine;
maize, maze;
majority, plurality, minority;
mall, maul;
manner, manor;
mantel, mantle;
manual, Manuel;
mare, mayor;
marital, martial, marshal;
mark, marque;
marquee, marquis;
marten, martin;
mask, masque;
massage, message;
massed, mast;
massive, missive;
masterful, masterly;
material, materiel or matériel;
maybe, may be;
mean, mien;
meat, meet, mete;
medal, meddle;
mediate, meditate, medicate;
medium, media, median;
meeting, meting;
melody, medley, malady;
merry, marry, Mary;

metal, mettle;
meteor, meteorite;
mewl, mule;
mews, muse, Muse;
milestone, millstone;
militate, mitigate;
millenary, millinery;
mince, mints;
miner, minor;
minute, minuet;
misocapnist, capnophobia;
missal, missile;
mist, missed;
mite, might;
moan, mown;
moat, mote, molt;
mode, mowed;
mogul, mongrel;
momentous, momentary;
monologue, dialogue;
monopoly, polypoly;
mood, mooed;
moose, mousse, mouse;
moot, mute;
moral, morale;
morality, mortality;
morbid, sordid;
more, mower;
morn, mourn;
morning, mourning;
motif, motive;
motto, mottle;
mucous, mucus;
mulched, mulcted;
muscle, mussel;
musical, musicale;
mustard, mustered

N

nauseated, nauseous;
naval, navel;
nay, nee or née, neigh;
need, knead, kneed;
negligent, negligible;
never, ever;
new, gnu, knew, nu;
news, gnus;
nice, gneiss;
night, knight;
nom de plume, pseudonym, pen name;
none, nun;
nose, knows, noes, nos;
nugget, nougat

O

oar, o’er, or, ore;
oath, minced oath;
obscene, lewd;
observance, observation;
obsolete, obsolescent, archaic, archaism;
obstacle, impediment;
oculist, optician, ophthalmologist,
optometrist;
ode, owed;
official, officious;
one, won;
opaque, transparent;
optimist, pessimist;
oracle, auricle;
oral, verbal, aural;
ordinance, ordnance;
orient, Orient, orientate;
osculate, oscillate, vacillate;
our, hour;
overdo, overdue;
O, oh, owe,;
oversight, omission

paced, paste;
packed, pact;
packs, pax;
paid, payed;
pail, pale;
pain, pane;
pair, pairs, pare, pear;
pairing, paring;
palate, palette, pallet;
pall, pawl;
par, parr;
pariah, piranha;
parlay, parley;
partition, petition;
passe, posse;
passed, past;
pastor, pasture;
pathos, bathos;
patients, patience;
pause, paws;
pawing, pawning;
peace, piece;
peaceful, peaceable;
peak, peek, pique, piqué;
peaked, peaked;
peal, peel;
pealing, peeling;
pean or paean, peon;
pearl, purl;
pedal, peddle, petal;
peer, pier;
pelisse, police;
pen, pin;
penance, pennants;
pencil, pensile;
pendant, pedent, pennant;
penitence, penitents;
per, purr;
percent, percentage;
perfect, prefect;
perimeter, parameter;
perpetrate, perpetuate;
perpetual, perpetuity;
perquisite, requisite, prerequisite;
persecute, prosecute;
personal, personnel;
perspective, prospective, prospectus;
perspicuous, perspicacious;
perspiration, aspiration, inspiration;
peruse, pursue;
petrify, putrify, purify;
petty, paltry, trivial;
pew, pu;
phenomenon, phenomena,
phenomenal;
physic, physique, psychic;
pi, pie;
pidgin, pigeon;
pier, peer;

pistil, pistol;
pitiful, piteous, pitiable;
pizza, piazza;
place, plaice;
plain, plane;
plaintiff, defendant;
plait, plate, pleat,;
plausible, feasible;
pleas, please;
plight, flight, flite or flyte;
plum, plumb;
pejorative, meliorative;
pejoration, melioration;
pole, poll;
polish, Polish;
polite, courteous;
pomace, pumice;
pommel, pummel;
populace, populous, population;
popular, poplar;
pore, pour, poor;
poring, pouring;
portion, potion;
practical, practicable, pragmatic;
practice, practise;
praise, prays, preys;
pray, prey;
precede, proceed;
precedence, precedents;
precedent, president;
precipitate, precipitous, precipice;
predicate, predicate, predict;
prelude, preclude;
premier, première or premiere;
prescribe, proscribe;
presence, presents;
presumption, presumptive,
presumptuous;
pretend, portend, portent;
prevent, hinder;
preventive, preventative;
pride, pried;
pries, prize;
principal, principle;
prier, prior;
prints, prince;
profit, prophet; prophecy, prophesy;
proletarian, plebian;
proportion, apportion;
propose, purpose;
prosperity, posterity;
protege, prodigy;
prodigal, progeny;
pros, prose;
pendant, pedent;
prosthesis, prostration;
prosthetic, prostration;
prostrate, prostate;
protein, protean;
prude, prudent;
pundit, pundent, pedant, prodigy;
purl, pearl;
puttee, putty;
puzzle, perplex, bewilder

quail, quail;
quarts, quartz;
query, question, quest, inqiry;
quiet, quite, quit

R

rabbet, rabbit;
rabble, rubble, rubbish;
race, race;
rack, wrack;
racket, racquet;
rail, rail, rail;
ravage, ravish;
raise, rear, rise, raze, rays;
raise, rear;
raised, razed;
rake, rake;
rap, wrap;
rapt, rapped, wrapped;
rappel, repel;
rapper, wrapper;
rare, scarce;
rational, rationale;
readable, legible;
recent, resent, resent;
read, reed;
read, red;
real, reel;
realize, know;
ream, reem;
rebound, redound;
recede, reseed;
recitation, resuscitation;
recurring, frequent;
redundant, abundant;
reek, wreak;
refuge, refugee;
refuse, refuse;
regal, regale;
regime, regimen, regiment;
register, registrar;
reign, rein, rain;
reigns, reins, rains;
reputed, reported;
required, prescribed;
requirement, requisition;

reseat, receipt, recipe;
reserve, reserve;
residence, residents;
resign, re-sign;
resort, resort;
respectable, respectful, respective;
respectfully, respectively, respectably;
rest, wrest;
restful, restive;
restive, restless, restful;
resume, continue;
résumé, synopsis, summary;
retch, wretch;
reticent, taciturn;
reverence, reference;
review, revue;
revile, revel;
revelry, reveille;
rheum, room;
Rhodes, roads;
rhumb, rum;
rhyme, rime;
rich, wealthy, affluent;
rigger, rigor;
right, rite, write, wright;
ring, wring;
ringer, wringer;
risky, risque or risqué;
road, rode, rowed;
roam, Rome;
roar, rower;
robber, thief, burglar;
roc, rock;
roe, row, row;
roil [rile], royal;
roll, role;
rood, rude, rued;
roomer, rumor;
root, route, en route, rout;
rose, rosé, rows, roes, rouse;
roster, rostrum;
rot, wrought;
rote, wrote;
ruble, rubble;
ruff, rough;
rung, wrung;
rye, wry

sac, sack, sacque;
sacks, sax;
sacred, sacrosanct;
sacrilege, sacrilegious;
sail, sale;
salary, celery;
salon, saloon;
salubrious, lugubrious;
sanatorium, sanitarium;
sane, seine, Seine;
sanguine, sanguinary, sanguineous;
satin, sateen;
savant, idiot savant, idiot;
saver, savor;
scald, scold;
scalp, scalpel;
scan, scandal;
scream, screech, shriek, squeal;
scrip, script;
scuff, scruff;
scull, skull;
sculptor, sculpture;
seam, seem;
seamen, semen;
seamed, seemed;
sear, seer, seer, sere;
seas, sees, seize, siege, cease;
seasonable, seasonal;
secret, secrete;
sects, sex;
seen, scene;
see, sea;
sense, scents, cents;
sell, cell;
senses, census;
sensitive, sensuous, sensual;
septic, skeptic, styptic;
serf, surf;
seraph, serif;
session, cession;
setaceous, cetaceous;
sever, severe;
sewage, sewerage;
sewer, sewer, sower, suer;
sexton, sextant;
shall, will;
shear, sheer;
sheath, sheathe;
shelf, shelve;
shoe, shoo;
shone, shown;
shoot, chute;
shudder, shutter;
sic, sick;
sight, spectacle;
sighs, size;
signature, autograph;
sign, sine;
signet, cygnet;
side, sighed;
sigher, sire;
simple, simplistic;
simulate, stimulate;
sing, singe;
sink, cinque;
sit, sat, set;

slay, sleigh;
sleave, sleeve;
sleight, slight;
sloe, slow;
slogan, motto;
slough, slew;
slugger, sluggard;
smear, smirch, smirk;
smug, smudge;
so, sew, sow, sow;
soar, sore, sower;
soared, sword;
sold, soled;
solder, sodder;
sole, soul;
solid, stolid;
solitary, solitaire;
some, sum;
sometime, some time, sometimes;
son, sun;
soot, suit;
sore, sower, soar;
spacious, specious;
speak, speech;
special, especial, spacial;
specie, species;
specter, scepter;
splatter, splutter;
squib, squid;
stable, staple;
staid, stayed;
stair, stare;
stake, steak;
stalactite, stalagmite,
stalacto-stalagmite, stalemate;
stamp, stomp;
stanch, staunch;
stationary, stationery;
statue, stature, statute;
steal, steel;
steely, stele;
steno, stereo;
stentorian, stertorous;
step, steppe;
sticks, Styx;
stink, stint;
straight, strait;
straightened, straitened;
strut, strut;
style, stile;
subsequent, consequent;
succinct, concise;
suet, soot;
suburb, superb;
succor, sucker;
suit, suite, sweet;
summary, summery;
Sunday, sundae;
superintendence, superintendents;
supernatural, unnatural;
supposedly, presumably;
surf, serf;
surge, serge;
surmise, premise;
suspicion, suspect;
swath, swathe;
swayed, suede;
symbol, cymbal

T

tack, tact;
tail, tale;
take, bring;
talents, talons;
taper, tapir;
tare, tear;
tart, tart;
tartar, Tartar;
taught, taut, taunt;
tax, tacks;
tea, tee;
teach, learn;
team, teem;
tear, tear, tier, tire;
tease, teas, tees;
temerity, timidity, timorous;
tenant, tenet;
tenor, tenure;
tense, tents, tens;
tepid, torpid;
tern, turn;
than, then;
therefor, therefore;
their, there, they’re;
this, that;
thong, throng;
thorough, throughout;
thrash, thresh;
treachery, treason;
threw, through, thru;

triumphal, triumphant;
throw, throe;
thrown, throne;
throws, throes;
thyme, time;
tick, tic;
tide, tied;
timber, timbre;
tinge, twinge;
tire, Tyre, tier, tier;
toad, toed, towed;
to, too, two;
toe, tow;
told, tolled;
ton, tun;
tonic, tunic;
tool, tulle;
tort, torte;
tortoise, turtle;
torturous, tortuous;
touchy, touche;
tout, toot;
tracked, tract;
transience, transients;
translate, transliterate;
translucent, transparent;
transsexual, transvestite;
travel, travail;
tray, trey;
trident, strident;
troop, troupe;
trooper, trouper;
trustee, trusty;
turgid, tubid;
tutor, Tudor;
typography, topography

U

umbrella, parasol, sombrero;
unexceptionable, unexceptional;
uninhibited, uninhabited;
unique;
unit, unite;
university, college;
urban, urbane;
use, yews, ewes;
usable, useful;
utter, udder;
unwanted, unwonted

V

vain, vane, vein;
vale, vail, veil;
valet, valley;
varied, various;
vary, very;
vassal, vessel;
venal, venial, vernal;
venue, veneer;
Venus, venous, venomous;
veracious, voracious;
veracity, voracity;
verses, versus;
vertex, vortex;
vial, vile;
vice, vise;
villain, villein;
visa, vista;
victual, virtual;
vindictive, vindication;
vocation, avocation;
volt, vault

W

wade, weighed;
wafer, waver;
waist, waste;
wait, weight;
want, wont, won’t

war, wore;
ware, wear, were, where;
wares, wears;
wary, weary;
warn, worn;
wave, waive;
waver, waiver;
way, weigh, whey;
wax, wane;
wax, whacts;
we, wee;
weal, we’ll;
weak, week;
weather, whether;
weave, we’ve;
weed, we’d;
weld, welled;
wench, winch, wince;
wet, whet;
whale, whale, wail;
wheal, wheel;
which, witch;
while, wile;
whine, wine;
whirl, whorl;
whither, wither;
who, whom;
who’s, whose;
whoa, woe;
whole, hole;
whose, who’s;
widow, widower;
wiggle, wriggle;
wilt, welt;
wind, wind, wined;
worst, wurst;
would, wood;
wreak, wreck;

Y

yoke, joke, yolk;
you, ewe, yew;
you’re, your, yore;
yule, you’ll

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