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    Commonly Confused Words

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    Commonly confused words that sound or look alike often trip up students. The document provides examples of word pairs that are frequently mixed up including accept/except, advice/advise, affect/effect, aisle/isle, allusion/illusion, already/all ready, bare/bear, board/bored, breath/breathe, brake/break, conscience/conscious, dairy/diary, dessert/desert, die/dye, hear/here, hole/whole, meat/meet, miner/minor, patience/patients, peace/piece, pedal/petal, presence/presents, principal/principle, quiet/quite, weak/week, weather/whether,

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    Commonly confused words that sound or look alike often trip up students. The document provides examples of word pairs that are frequently mixed up including accept/except, advice/advise, affect/effect, aisle/isle, allusion/illusion, already/all ready, bare/bear, board/bored, breath/breathe, brake/break, conscience/conscious, dairy/diary, dessert/desert, die/dye, hear/here, hole/whole, meat/meet, miner/minor, patience/patients, peace/piece, pedal/petal, presence/presents, principal/principle, quiet/quite, weak/week, weather/whether,

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    Commonly confused words that sound or look alike often trip up students. The document provides examples of word pairs that are frequently mixed up including accept/except, advice/advise, affect/effect, aisle/isle, allusion/illusion, already/all ready, bare/bear, board/bored, breath/breathe, brake/break, conscience/conscious, dairy/diary, dessert/desert, die/dye, hear/here, hole/whole, meat/meet, miner/minor, patience/patients, peace/piece, pedal/petal, presence/presents, principal/principle, quiet/quite, weak/week, weather/whether,

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    Commonly Confused Words

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    Daniela Ionescu
    Commonly confused words that sound or look alike often trip up students. The document provides examples of word pairs that are frequently mixed up including accept/except, advice/advise, affect/effect, aisle/isle, allusion/illusion, already/all ready, bare/bear, board/bored, breath/breathe, brake/break, conscience/conscious, dairy/diary, dessert/desert, die/dye, hear/here, hole/whole, meat/meet, miner/minor, patience/patients, peace/piece, pedal/petal, presence/presents, principal/principle, quiet/quite, weak/week, weather/whether,

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    COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS

    Words that sound alike or look alike (Tuesday/Thursday) often confuse students.

    accept- to say yes


    except-with the exclusion of/without

    advice-recommendation (noun)
    advise -to recommend (verb)

    affect= to influence (verb); emotional response (noun)


    effect- result (noun); to cause (verb)

    aisle -space between rows (on airplane)


    isle- island

    allusion- indirect reference


    illusion -false idea, misleading appearance

    already -by this time


    all ready -fully prepared

    bare -nude, naked,not dressed


    bear -to carry; an animal

    board -piece of wood TAHTA PANO


    bored not interested

    breath- air taken in (noun)


    breathe- to take in air (verb)

    brake -device for stopping(cars)


    break -destroy; make into pieces

    conscience- sense of morality


    conscious- awake, aware

    dairy -place where milk products are processed


    diary- personal journal

    dessert -final, sweet cake in a meal


    desert -to abandon; dry, sandy area

    die to lose life;


    dye to change or add color (for hair)
    hear to sense sound by ear
    here in this place

    hole opening,small space


    whole complete; full, an entire thing

    meat animal flesh


    meet to encounter

    miner a worker in a mine


    minor underage person (noun); less important (adj.)

    patience putting up with annoyances


    patients people under medical care

    peace absence of war


    piece part of a whole; musical arrangement

    pedal the foot lever of a bicycle or car


    petal a flower segment

    presence attendance; being there


    presents gifts

    principal director.); administrator of a school (noun)


    principle moral conviction, basic truth

    quiet silent, calm


    quite very

    weak not strong


    week seven days

    weather climatic condition


    whether if

    which one of a group


    witch female sorcerer

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