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Commonly confused words
Study the different meanings and spelling of these twenty-seven commonly confused words
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Undergraduate 1
05/09/2012
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A
 Definition
Used before a word that begins with a consonant sound.
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An
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Use before a word that begins with a vowel sounds.
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And
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Used to join two words.
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Accept
 Definition
To agree to receive or admit.(Verb)
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Except
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But, then other
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Advice
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Opinion(noun)
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Advise
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To give an opinion(verb)
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Are
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A form of the verb be
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Our
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A pronoun showing ownership.
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By
 Definition
Next to or before
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buy
 Definition
To purchase(verb)
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Conscience
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A personal sense of right and wrong.(Noun)
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Conscious
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Awake, aware(adjective)
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Fine
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Of high quality(adjective); feeling well(adjective); a penalty for breaking the law.(noun)
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Find
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To locate, to discover(verb)
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Its
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A pronoun showing ownership
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It's
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A contraction of the word it is.
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knew
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Understood; recognized(past tense of the verb know)
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New
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Unused, recent, or just introduced(adjective)
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know
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To understand; to have knowledge of(verb)
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No
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Used to form a negative
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Loose
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Baggy;relaxed; not fixed in place(adjective)
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Lose
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To misplace; to forfeit position of(verb)
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Mind
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To object to(verb); the thinking or feeling the part of one's brain.
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mine
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Belonging to me; a source of ore or minerals.
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Of
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Coming from; caused by; part of a group; made from
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Have
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To possess
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Passed
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Went by or went ahead
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Past
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Time that has gone by; gone by, over, just beyond
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Peace
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No disagreement; calm
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Piece
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A part of something larger
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Principal
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Main; head of a school on leader of an organization
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Principle
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A standard of the beliefs or behaviors
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Quiet
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Soft in sound; not noisy
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Quite
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Completely; very
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Quit
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To stop
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Right
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Correct; in a dictionary opposite from left
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Write
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To put words on paper
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Set
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A collection of something; to place an object somewhere
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Sit
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To rest in a chair or other seat like surface; to be located in a particular place
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Suppose
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To imagine are assumed to be true.
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Supposed
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Past tense of suppose; intended
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than
 Definition
A word used to compare two or more things are persons.
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then
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At a certain time; next in time
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their
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A pronoun showing ownership
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there
 Definition
A word indicating location or existence
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they're
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A contraction of the word they are.
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Though
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However; nevertheless; in spite of
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through
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Finished with; from one side to another
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threw
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hurled;tossed
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to
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A word indicating a direction or movement; part of an infinitive form of a verb.
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Too
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Also; more than enough; very
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two
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The number between one and three.
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Use
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To employ are put into service
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used
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Past tense of the verb use. Used to can indicate past fact or state, or it can mean"familiar with"
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Who's
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A contraction of the word who is
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Whose
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A pronoun showing ownership
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your
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A pronoun joint ownership.2
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you're
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A contraction of the words you are.
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Affect
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To make an impact on, to change something(verb)
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Effect
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A result(noun)
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