Ability, Capacity: Ability is 'the skill to do something', and capacity is 'the volume

of a space'. Make sure you don't use capacity to mean ability, though its not
incorrect.

She showed great ability to fill the bottle to its capacity.

Accept, Except: This should not much confuse people, though there are people
who use it interchangeably. Except is a grammar word that means 'letting alone'
and accept is a verb meaning 'to agree to receive something'.

Everyone except me was present at the wedding.

I accepted her proposal for marriage.

Advise, Advice: Here both mean the same, but 'se' is verb and 'ce' is noun.
Don't interchange them. There are other words in which 'se' forms verb and 'ce'
forms noun (which, sad I can't remember now, and would request any of my
knowledgeable readers to comment about).

I advised him to take her advice.

Adapt, Adopt: Adapt is used to mean 'you are preparing for a situation'. Adopt is
'to accept an orphan as your child and raise him' or 'to choose to use particular
plan'.

I would like to adapt to the climate of Chennai.

I decided to adopt the child.
I also adopted the new mutual funds investment plan.

Affect, Effect: Affect is 'influence'. Effect can be noun (the result of something)
and verb (to cause something)

The Tsunami affected the lives of South Indian people, and effected a great fall in
share market. (Here effect means cause).

Allusion, Illusion: Allusion (verb: allude) means 'a reference to something'.

Illusion is 'a magical appearance'.

He alluded to the incident briefly.

The Fire Escape illusion was wonderful.

Averse, Adverse: You are averse means 'you don't like something'. Adverse
means 'harmful', and it should be used more with things than human beings.
I am averse to smocking in the public, since it's adverse to your health.

Among, Between: Among comes when there are three or more people, and
between comes when there are two people. Both mean 'in the middle of'.

Compliment, Complement: You give a compliment to somebody for good

performance. Complement is the matching other piece of something. The adjective
form of these are complementary and complementary. Notice, there is no word
such as 'complementory' or 'complimentory' with that o.

The blouse complements quite well with the saree, which I complimented her
about.

Counsel, Council: Two of the famous confusable words. Counsel means 'advise' or
'guide in the correct direction'. Its a verb. On the other hand, council is a noun
meaning a 'body of people governing something'.

The council approved the counseling of its aberrant members.

Comprise, Compose: Comprise means 'include' and compose means 'create'. Just
remember that components 'create (compose)' something, and something is
'comprised of (includes)' its components.

The microphone comprises a magnet and an attached diaphragm.

A magnet with a diaphragm attached composes a microphone.