Monday, December 24, 2012

Words that often confused


Air:                            atmosphere
E’er:                          Ever
Ere:                           before
Heir:                          one who inherits.
Ascent:                      a situation, sleeping place.
Birth:                        a coming in to life
Complement:            full number
Compliment:            a polite expression of praise
Council:                    consulting body
Counsel:                   advice
Deprecate:                to express disapproval
Depreciate:               to diminish in value or be little
Draft:                        detachment of men
Draught:                   drink.
Eligible:                    fit to be chosen, suitable.
Illegible:                    unreadable.
Eruption:                  a braking forth, as sale of goods.
Fair:                          lovely, a gathering for sale of goods.
Fare:                         food.
Gait:                          manner of walking.
Gate:                         a large door.
Liar:                          one who tells lies.
Lyre:                         a musical instrument.
Mean:                        poor, low, also equally removed from two extremes.
Mien:                         manner, look, bearing.
Precedent:                 an example for the future.
President:                 head of society.
Choir:                       a body of singer
Coir:                         coconut fiber
Reek:                         to care to heed.
Wreck:                      the loss of a ship
Rite:                          a solemn ceremony
Right:                        correct, proper
Write:                       to inscribe
Wright:                     a maker, a workman, as shipwright.
Stationary:                not removing
Stationery                 writhing materials
Treaties:                   formal agreement
Treatise:                   formal literary composition.
Weather:                  atmosphere composition
Wither:                     wilting
Whether:                  which of the two

The small vocabulary of words might help you to recapitulate the forgotten vocabulary. 

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