Most Commonly Confused Words in English
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| Word | Meaning | Word | Meaning |
| Accept | Receive | Except | Leave out |
| Affect | Influence | Effect | Result |
| Allowed | Permitted | Aloud | Clearly heard |
| Allude | Make indirect reference | Elude | Escape from something |
| Ate | Past tense of eat | Eight | The number |
| Break | Smash, split | Brake | Stopping device |
| By | Preposition | Buy | Purchase |
| Capital | City, wealth | Capitol | Building |
| Coarse | Rough | Course | Way or path |
| Ensure | Guarantee | Insure | Financial liability |
| Farther | Physical distance | Further | Abstract idea |
| For | Preposition | Four | The number |
| Forth | Forward | Fourth | Comes after third |
| Hear | Perceive | Here | In this place |
| Loose | Free | Lose | Misplace |
| Peace | Absence of war | Piece | Part, portion |
| Plain | Simple | Plane | Flat surface |
| Principle | Rule | Principal | Chief person |
| Quiet | Silent | Quite | Really, positively |
| Than | comparison | Then | At that time |
| To | In the direction of | Too | Also |
| Weak | Feeble | Week | Seven days |
| Weather | Atmospheric conditions | Whether | If, in case |
| which | what one | witch | sorceress |
| Who | subject | Whom | object |
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