A Guide To Writing in English: Easily Confused Words

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Word 1	Word 2	review
accept	except
adoptive	adopted
adverse	averse
advice	advise
affect	effect
all ready	already
all together	altogether
allot	a lot
allusion	illusion
altar	alter
ambiguous	ambivalent
among	between
amoral	immoral
appraise	apprise
are	our
augur	auger
award	reward
bad	badly
beside	besides
brake	break
breathe	breath
by	buy
by	bye
can	may
canvas	canvass
capital	capitol
censure	censor
cite	site
clothes	cloths
coarse	course
compare	contrast
compare to	compare with
complement	compliment
consul	counsel
continuous	continual
council	counsel
decent	descent
definite	definitive
defuse	diffuse
delusion	illusion
delusion	allusion
descent	dissent
desert	dessert
discreet	discrete
draft	draught
egoism	egotism
envelop	envelope
flounder	founder
forth	fourth
good	well
grisly	grizzly
hear	here
hoard	horde
hole	whole
hour	our
imply	infer
incidence	incidents
incite	insight
instance	instants
insure	ensure
its	it's
knew	new
know	no
later	latter
lay	lie
lead	led
leave	let
loose	lose
luxuriant	luxurious
marital	martial
notable	noticeable
object	subject
officious	official
passed	past
peace	piece
perspicuous	perspicacious
plain	plane
pore	pour
precede	proceed
precedence	precedent
presence	presents
principal	principle
proscribe	prescribe
quiet	quit
quiet	quite
rain	reign
rain	rein
raise	rise
regretful	regrettable
sea	see
sit	set
site	sight
stationary	stationery
statue	stature
statue	statute
story	storey
than	then
their	there
their	they're
threw	through
to	too
to	two
tortuous	torturous
vain	vein
vain	vane
vociferous	voracious
waist	waste
weak	week
wear	were
wear	where
weather	whether
whether	rather
whose	who's
your	you're