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7 Confused and
Misused
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Accede/Exceed
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Accept/Except
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Access/Excess
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Adapt/Adept/Adopt
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Advice/Advise
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Affect/Effect
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Allude/Elude
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Alternate/Alternative
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Appraise/Apprise
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Assure/Ensure/Insure
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Bazaar/Bizarre
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Because of/Due to
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Beside/Besides
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Bi-/Semi-
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Breach/Breech
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Can/May
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Carat/Caret/Karat
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Cease/Seize
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Ceiling/Sealing
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Choose/Chose
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Cite/Sight/Site
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Command/Commend
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Complement/Compliment
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Conscience/Conscious
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Convince/Persuade
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Costumer/Customer
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Deceased/Diseased
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Decent/Descent/Dissent
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Defer/Differ
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Device/Devise
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Discreet/Discrete
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Disinterested/Uninterested
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E.g./I.e.
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Elicit/Illicit
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Eligible/Illegible
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Envelop/Envelope
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Explicit/Implicit
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Farther/Further
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Fewer/Less
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Foreword/Forward
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Good/Well
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He/Him/Himself
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Hoard/Horde
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I/Me/Myself
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Ingenious/Ingenuous
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Irregardless/Regardless
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It’s/Its
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Lay/Lie
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Liable/Libel/Likely
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Lightening/Lightning
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Loose/Lose
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Moral/Morale
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Peak/Peek
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Personal/Personnel
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Perspective/Prospective
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Peruse/Pursue
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Pore/Pour
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Precede/Proceed
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Precedence/Precedents
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Rational/Rationale
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Respectably/Respectfully/
Respectively
• Respectably (ADVERB; in a correct or decent
manner)—The vagrant was dressed respectably for
his court appearance.
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Shall/Will
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Shear/Sheer
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Should/Would
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Soar/Sore
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Sole/Soul
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Stationary/Stationery
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Statue/Stature/Statute
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Than/Then
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That/Which
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Their/There/They’re
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Theirs/There’s
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Threw/Through/Thru
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Toward/Towards
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Vice/Vise
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Waive/Wave
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Waiver/Waver
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Weather/Whether
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Who/Whom
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Who’s/Whose
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Your/You’re
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