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This section of our course will
review 100 words groups that are troublesome to
many CPE students. Words have been grouped
according to the way they are most often confused or
misused. Some of these words are homonyms (words
that sound alike but are spelled differently) and
some are just commonly confused. Each set of
confusables (eg: their, there, they're) are
displayed together. |
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Words Groups -
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31. |
complement = to make complete
compliment = to praise |
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32. |
continual = happening often
continuous = happening uninterruptedly |
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33. |
conscientious = diligent
conscious = aware; awake |
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34. |
credible = believable
creditable = worthy of
credit or praise
credulous = believing anything |
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35. |
depredation = a robbing
deprecation = disapproval |
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36. |
detain = to keep or hold up
retain = to keep in possession; to remember |
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37. |
detracted = took away from
distracted = diverted |
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38. |
devise = to create
revise = to change; to improve |
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39. |
devolve = to deliver from one possessor to another
evolve = to develop |
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40. |
discouraging = seeming to be with no chance of success
disparaging = insulting |
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This
"confusing words" revision will be
continued in Lesson 18.
And now practise all this on the next page.... |
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