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| Description | Example | Category |
|---|---|---|
| alter (altar) | His altar ego was being Batman. | Commonly Confused Words |
| alter (altar) | He was an alter boy. | Commonly Confused Words |
| alter (altar) | He was at the alter. | Commonly Confused Words |
| alter (altar) | Forty-seven percent of executives said they were concerned that retiring Boomers will significantly altar the workforce in the next decade. | Commonly Confused Words |
| adverse (averse) | Are you adverse to eating horse meat? | Commonly Confused Words |
| decent (descent) | He is of Asian decent. | Commonly Confused Words |
| decent (descent) | Looking for a hotel with descent rooms. | Commonly Confused Words |
| diffuse (defuse) tensions | They gathered at her police precinct to thank officers for their work and to diffuse tensions. | Commonly Confused Words |
| diffuse (defuse) bomb | How long did it take you to diffuse the bomb? | Commonly Confused Words |
| counsel (consul) general | Archer Blood, the counsel general in Dacca. | Commonly Confused Words |
| wildly (widely) accepted | This idea is now wildly accepted. | Commonly Confused Words |
| a through(thorough) discussion etc. | The manual does not have a through discussion of the topic. | Commonly Confused Words |
| I was wandering (wondering) if | I was wandering if someone could help me. | Commonly Confused Words |
| knew (new) | This is very knew to me. | Commonly Confused Words |
| price (prize) | She won a price. | Commonly Confused Words |
| price (prize) | That is the consolation price. | Commonly Confused Words |
| price (prize) | That is the Nobel Price. | Commonly Confused Words |
| price (prize) | He won the Noble Peace Price. | Commonly Confused Words |
| price (prize) | A Noble committee is a working body responsible for most of the work involved in selecting Nobel Prize laureates. | Commonly Confused Words |
| prize (price) | This is called prize spiral. | Commonly Confused Words |
| look (watch) | I am looking TV. | Commonly Confused Words |
| look (watch) | She looks TV every morning. | Commonly Confused Words |
| look (watch) | I look TV every morning. | Commonly Confused Words |
| look (watch) | I looked TV in the morning. | Commonly Confused Words |
| site (side) | On the positive site, there are some improvements. | Commonly Confused Words |
| side (site) | There is a construction side. | Commonly Confused Words |
| believe (belief) | It is my strong believe that something has to be changed. | Commonly Confused Words |
| belief (believe) | We belief that this is wrong. | Commonly Confused Words |
| coarse (course) | A coarse after action | Commonly Confused Words |
| coarse (course) | In the syllabus for an Applied Mathematics coarse, students are told to write their problem sets individually. | Commonly Confused Words |
| prove (proof) | It's just a prove of concept. | Commonly Confused Words |
| prove (proof) | Their prove is wrong. | Commonly Confused Words |
| prove (proof) | I want prove of its existence. | Commonly Confused Words |
| it seams (seems) | Being vegan easier than it's seems, experts say. | Commonly Confused Words |
| it seams (seems) | Being vegan easier than it seams, experts say. | Commonly Confused Words |
| it seams (seems) | This seams wrong. | Commonly Confused Words |
| ease off (of) use | Increase ease off use. | Commonly Confused Words |
| ease (easy) | This looks pretty ease to me. | Commonly Confused Words |
| admin (admit) | I must admin that my code is not perfect. | Commonly Confused Words |
| not ad (at) all | No, not ad all. | Commonly Confused Words |
| not ad (at) all | This is not true ad all. | Commonly Confused Words |
| take case (care) of it | We need to take case of it. | Commonly Confused Words |
| I wander (wonder) if | I wander if I'm studying enough? | Commonly Confused Words |
| worth (worse) than | Is cloud hosting worth than hostgator? | Commonly Confused Words |
| not jet (yet) | That is not jet decided. | Commonly Confused Words |
| your (you're) | You're optimization is a good example. | Commonly Confused Words |
| you're (your) | There are a number of things you can do to reduce the risk to you’re pet. | Commonly Confused Words |
| deer/dear | Deer Anne,... | Commonly Confused Words |
| accept/except | Please except my apologies. | Commonly Confused Words |
| accept/except | Police found the culprits (accept one). | Commonly Confused Words |
| accept/except | This is done accept for that fact that we still have JBossws 2.0.0 binaries. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The primary affect on property values is… | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | We tried appeasing the rain gods, but to no affect. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | Regional factors have an affect on hotel guest satisfaction. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | Regional factors have a negative affect on hotel guest satisfaction. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | Parking Fees are in affect in this park. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The ban took affect at midnight. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | It had the same affect on me. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | That might effect the bottom line. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | That might adversely effect the bottom line. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The medicine shouldn't effect the baby. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The medicine would've effected the baby. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The laws had an immediate affect. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | There was a law with immediate affects. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | A side affect of global warming | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The side affects of global warming | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | A side-affect of global warming | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | The experiment didn't obey the laws of cause and affect. | Commonly Confused Words |
| affect vs effect | She was badly effected. | Commonly Confused Words |
| 'economical (economic) growth' etc. | This article deals with economical development of the Third World. | Commonly Confused Words |
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