Q: What is the pair of word of Wave Or Waive?
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Word: Wave |
Word: Waive |
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Meaning: A member of the women’s reserve of the U.S. Navy, organized during World War II, but now no longer a separate branch. |
Meaning: To put aside or off temporarily; defer. |
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Sentence: She waved me a greeting. |
Sentence: He waived his claims to the estate in favour of his younger brother. |
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Look-alike, sound-alike words can cause confusion. Note the distinctions between each pair of terms listed below:
1. Abjure and Adjure
Abjure, from Latin by way of French, means “to deny” or “to renounce,” or “to avoid.” Adjure, which took the same route to English, means “to confirm” or “to command,” or “to advise or urge.” In some senses, therefore, they are near antonyms. (That’s logical: Ab- means “from” and ad- means “to.”) However, they do share a root syllable, the same one that is the basis of jury, jurisprudence, just, justice, and other terms from the realm of law.
2. Chafe and Chaff
Chafe, ultimately derived from the Latin term calefacere, “to make warm or hot,” originally meant just that, but then, from the added sense of “rubbing to make warm,” it acquired the negative connotations of “make sore by rubbing” and then, by association, “irritate.” Chaff, an unrelated word, comes from Old English and refers to seed husks and, by extension, anything discarded as worthless. By association with the cloud of husks and other debris produced during threshing of grain, bursts of tiny scraps of metal ejected from aircraft to interfere with enemy radar is called chaff.
3. Discomfort and Discomfit
These similar-looking words have similar meanings, but it was not always so. Discomfort is the antonym of the word ultimately stemming from the Latin term confortare, meaning “to strengthen.” (Fort is also the root of, well, fort, as well as fortitude.) Discomfit, from the French word desconfit, meaning “defeated” (its Latin root means “to make”), was weakened by false association with discomfort to mean “frustrate” or “perplex.” Unlike the antonym for discomfort, comfit (“to make”) is not an antonym; it refers to candied fruit. Comfiture, however, is a rare synonym meaning “an act of support.”
4. Perspicacious and Perspicuous
Both words stem from the Latin term perspicere, meaning “looking through,” which is also the source of perspective. (The element spic, from specare, meaning “look at,” is also the root of spectacle and speculation.) However, the meanings are distinct: A perspicacious person is one who is astute or mentally alert; the quality so demonstrated is perspicacity. A perspicuous argument is one that is plainly clear and precise.
5. Practicable and Practical
Something practicable is usable or feasible, while something practical is useful — a slight but significant distinction. Practicable is used to refer to something that is or could be done (“a practicable policy”), while practical is associated with action or use: A practical umbrella is one that keeps rain from falling on you in the rain; an impractical one is decorative but not sturdy or waterproof enough for practical use.
6. Turbid and Turgid
Turbid refers to a sate of cloudiness, opacity, or obscurity; its Latin source is turba, meaning “confusion.” Turgid, from the Latin term turgidus, meaning “swollen,” means just that — or, by extension, “embellished” or “pompous,” in that a turgid speech, for example, is delivered by a person swollen with self-importance.
7. Waiver and Waver
Waiver, referring to abandonment or relinquishment, is from an Anglo-French word meaning “to abandon.” Waver, likely from the Old English term waefre, which means “restless,” means “to act indecisively.” The latter term is therefore probably related to the verb wave, meaning “to move back and forth,” and the same word as a noun, referring to the act of waving or to something that moves back and forth, like an ocean wave or a radio wave.
You’ll find discussions of many other easily confused words by searching on this site for the words “commonly confused” or for the specific words.
A list of words that contain Wave, and words with wave in them.
This page finds any words that contain the word or letter you enter from a large scrabble dictionary.
We also have lists of Words that end with wave,
and words that start with wave.
Wave is a playable Scrabble Word!
Contents
- Highest scoring words with Wave
- 11-letter words with Wave
- 10-letter words with Wave
- 9-letter words with Wave
- 8-letter words with Wave
- 7-letter words with Wave
- 6-letter words with Wave
- 5-letter words with Wave
- 4-letter words with Wave
- FAQs about words with Wave
The highest scoring words with Wave
Want to go straight to the words that will get you the best score? Here are all the highest scoring words with wave,
not including the 50-point bonus if they use seven letters.
| Top words with Wave | Scrabble Points | Words With Friends Points |
|---|---|---|
| airwave | 13 | 14 |
| wavelet | 13 | 15 |
| waverer | 13 | 14 |
| waveoff | 19 | 20 |
| wavered | 14 | 15 |
49 Scrabble words that contain Wave
4 Letter Words With Wave
- wave10
FAQ on words containing Wave
What are the best Scrabble words with Wave?
The highest scoring Scrabble word containing Wave is Wavelengths, which is worth at least 21 points without
any bonuses.
The next best word with Wave is wavelet, which is worth 13 points.
Other high score words with Wave are
waverer (13),
waveoff (19),
and
wavered (14).
How many words contain Wave?
There are 49 words that contaih Wave in the Scrabble dictionary.
Of those
1 is a 11 letter
word,
12 are 10 letter
words,
12 are 9 letter
words,
11 are 8 letter
words,
5 are 7 letter
words,
3 are 6 letter
words,
4 are 5 letter
words,
and
1 is a 4 letter
word.
Other forms: waves; waved; waving
The word wave has many different meanings, but they all have to do with an undulating motion or shape. A wave that washes up on a beach has the same kind of back-and-forth movement as a crowd of baseball fans doing «the wave» in the stands.
Use the verb wave to describe a greeting that includes a hand motion, from the enthusiastic flapping wave of a little kid meeting his dad at the airport to the prim wave of a Queen acknowledging her subjects. In physics, when you talk about a sound wave, there is a similar kind of rise and fall. Two Old English root words of wave are wæfre, «wavering or restless,» and wagian, «to move to and fro.»
Definitions of wave
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noun
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
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synonyms:
undulation
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gravitation wave, gravity wave
(physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light
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sine wave
a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve
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oscillation, vibration
(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
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fluctuation
a wave motion
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seiche
a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances
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standing wave, stationary wave
a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time
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traveling wave, travelling wave
a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave
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acoustic wave, sound wave
(acoustics) a wave that transmits sound
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wave form, wave shape, waveform
the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time
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blast wave, shock wave
a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity
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impulse, pulsation, pulse, pulsing
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
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flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering
the motion made by flapping up and down
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ripple
(electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value
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solitary wave, soliton, soliton wave
(physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate
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air wave
a sound wave that is transmitted via air
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transient
(physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
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sonic boom
an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound
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beat
a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
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resonance
a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system
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sympathetic vibration
(physics) vibration produced by resonance
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type of:
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motion, movement
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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noun
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
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synonyms:
moving ridge
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breaker, breakers, surf
waves breaking on the shore
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backwash, wake
the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
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swash
the movement or sound of water
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riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet
a small wave on the surface of a liquid
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crestless wave, swell
the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
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lift, rise
a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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billow, surge
a large sea wave
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tidal wave
a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun
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tidal wave
an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide
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tsunami
a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
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roll, roller, rolling wave
a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
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comber
a long curling sea wave
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white horse, whitecap
a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white
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ground swell, heavy swell
a broad and deep undulation of the ocean
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type of:
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motion, movement
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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noun
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
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verb
move or swing back and forth
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synonyms:
brandish, flourish
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wigwag
send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code
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type of:
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displace, move
cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
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wigwag
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verb
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
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synonyms:
flap, roll, undulate
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luff
flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
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type of:
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move
move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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luff
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verb
signal with the hands or nod
“She
waved to her friends”“He
waved his hand hospitably”-
synonyms:
beckon
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noun
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
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“she asked the hairdresser to
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verb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
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noun
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
“a
wave of settlers”“troops advancing in
waves” -
noun
something that rises rapidly
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wave of emotion swept over him”“there was a sudden
wave of buying before the market closed” -
noun
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
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Commonly confused words
wave / waive
To wave is to move to and fro, like when you wave your hand. Hello there! To waive, with a sneaky «i,» is to give up your right to do something.
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Most confused words in English with Meaning are listed here. These confused words are used in our daily conversation. You must know these confused words that makes your listening and understanding difficult.
What are the Confusing Words?
Confusing words are the words that we mistakenly use in the wrong place. These are the words with the most confusion. Confusing words is a very useful vocabulary lesson and a lot of English learners are looking for a compatible lesson of confusing words.
Important: Adverbs of Manner
Most confused words in English with Meaning
Here is the list of 100 words that are often confused with their correct meaning in English:
| Temperance
Temperament |
moderation
disposition |
| regret
Sorrow |
to grieve at
pain of mind |
| Flagrant
Fragrant |
glaring
sweet |
| Witch
Which |
Sorceress
What one |
| Accident
Incident |
Bad event
Any event |
| Allowed
Aloud |
Permitted
Clearly heard |
| Statue
Statute |
an image
size |
| Last
Latest |
Final
Most recent |
| Confidant
Confident |
one who is entrusted with secrets
fully assured |
| Ascendant
Ascendancy |
rising
controlling influence |
| Simulate
Dissimulate |
to pretend to be what one is not
to hide what one is |
| Neglect
Negligence |
willful omission of duty
habitual omission of duty |
| Excite
Incite |
to stir up
to move the mind to action |
| Scenery
Sight |
a view of a landscape
a thing seen |
| Immunity
Impunity |
not liable to infection
freedom from punishment |
| Capable
Capacious |
having ability or skill to do
roomy |
| Brake
Break |
Stopping device
Split, smash |
| Stimulant
Stimulus |
increasing or existing vital action
that which urge a man on |
| Ate
Eight |
The past tense of eat
The number |
| Honorary
Honorable |
intended merely to confer honor
worthy of Honor |
| Remember
Reminder |
Think of a memory
Notes, Cell alerts |
| Further
Farther |
Abstract idea
Physical distance |
| Stationary
Stationery |
Not moving
Writing paper etc. |
Confused Words List 2
| Timid
Cowardly |
fearful, wanting courage
mean, base |
| Luxuriant
Luxurious |
rich in growth
given to luxury |
| Collision
Collusion |
clash
a secret agreement to deceive |
| Gentle
Genteel |
polite
well-bred |
| Capitol
Capital |
Building
City, wealth |
| Altar
Alter |
Place of religious ceremonies
Change |
| Exceptionable
Exceptional |
to which exception can be taken
extraordinary |
| Take
Receive |
to take hold of thing ourselves
to accept delivery of a thing |
| Sell
Sale |
Verb
Noun |
| Forth
Fourth |
Forward
The number comes after three |
| Confidant
Confident |
Self-trust
Feel about good outcome |
| Good
Well |
Adjective
Adverb |
| Trifling
Trivial |
of small importance
a thing which is small in itself |
| Temporary
Temporal |
lasting for a time only
worldly |
| Hope
Expect |
to cherish pleasurable wishes
to look forward to as something about to happen |
| Wages
Fee |
money way to workmen
some paid to a professional man |
| Persecute
Prosecute |
to harass
to bring before a court |
| Lonely
Solitary |
forsaken
alone |
| See
Witness |
see is used for persons or things
witness is used for events or incidents |
| Healthful
Healthy |
conducive to health
possessing or enjoying health |
| Compliment
Complement |
Positive comment
Two things that go together |
| Scatter
Spread |
to throw things in different directions
to cover a certain area with something |
| Attenuate
Extenuate |
to make thin or lean
mitigate; to lessen the gravity of an act |
| Respectful | indicating respect |
| Union
Unity |
the stoke of different things being combined into one
oneness |
| Pair
Couple |
a set of two persons or things
two persons of different sexes bound to each other |
| Wave
Waive |
move
relinquish or forego |
| Practical
Practicable |
applying knowledge to some useful end and opposed to theoretical
capable of being performed |
| Testimony
Evidence |
oral or written statement
information tending to establish fast |
Confused Words List 3
| Compliment
Complement |
an expression to regard or praise
that which completes |
| Sensual
Sensuous |
one who indulges in animal appetites
pertaining to senses |
| Emigrate
Immigrate |
Leave your own country
Come and live in a country |
| Hate
Dislike |
to dislike intensely
to be displeased with |
| Plane
Plain |
Flat surface
Simple |
| Coarse
Course |
Rough
Way or path |
| Tenor
Tenure |
general run or currency
term |
| Quiet
Quite |
Silent
Really, positively |
| Transpire
Happen |
become known
occur |
| Freedom
Liberty |
personal and private liberty
public freedom |
| Corporal
Corporeal |
bodily
having a body or substance |
| Official
Officious |
pertaining to an office
too forward in offering services |
| Event
Accident |
An occurrence of some importance not necessarily unexpected
unexpected happening |
| Verbal
Verbose |
oral
wordy |
| Factious
Facetious |
turbulent
joking |
| Whether
Weather |
If, in case
Atmosphere |
| Probable
Possible |
that which is expected to happen
that which can happen |
| Part
Portion |
a section or a division
share giving when something is distributed |
| Farther
Further |
more far or distant
additional |
| Depreciate
Deprecate |
to low in value
to express disapproval of some |
| Polite
Politic |
courteous
well devised |
| Buy
By |
Purchase
Preposition |
| Spacious
Specious |
having ample room.
seeming right or true, but not really so |
| Avocation
Vocation |
subordinate occupation generally pursued for pleasure
occupation, career |
| Imaginary
Imaginative |
unreal
given to imagining |
| To
Too |
In the direction of something
Also |
| Quantity
Number |
the amount that can be measured
the amount that can be counted |
| Pray
Prey |
Asking God
An animal that is hunted |
Related: 100 Confusing Word in English
Confusing Words List 3
| Bring up
Grow up |
Parents bring up children
Children grow up |
| Ensure
Insure |
Guarantee
Financial liability |
| Suspense
Suspension |
state of indecision b
withholding |
| Willing
Willful |
disposed
obstinate |
| Sequel
Sequence |
result
order of succession |
| Shade
Shadow |
a spot sheltered from the sun
patch of shade projection by a body |
| Beside
Besides |
Next to
In addition to |
| Gone to
Been to |
You’ve traveled and not returned yet
You’ve traveled and have already returned |
| Poison
Venom |
If we inhale
Is injected |
| Effectual
Effective |
successful in producing the desired effect
having power to effect |
| Conscious
Conscientious |
aware of
one who acts according to the dictates of one’s conscience |
| Observance
Observation |
performance
act of recognizing and nothing |
| Averse
Adverse |
Describes a situation
Goes against what you want |
| Genius
Talent |
rare natural gifts
high mental ability or extraordinary capacity that is acquired |
| Loose
Lose |
Free
Misplace |
| Week
Weak |
Seven days
Feeble |
| Momentary
Momentous |
lasting only for a moment
of great importance |
| Decry
Descry |
to condemn
to discover by the eye |
| Peak
Pique |
Top
Provoke, Arouse |
| Literally
Actually |
whatever I say is literally true
he actually told a lie |
| Resources
Recourse |
means of raising money
a going to for aid or protection |
| Fetch
Bring |
to go and get
taking something with one |
| Deduce
Deduct |
to infer a truth or opinion from what precedes
to subtract |
| Here
Hear |
In this place
Perceive, listening |
| Salary
Income |
the money paid at regular intervals to officials, clerk, soldier
total money earned or received |
| Beneficial
Beneficent |
advantageous, useful
kind |
| Ugly
Awkward |
offensive to the eye
ungraceful |
| Deliverance
Delivery |
act of delivering from evil or fear
the act of speaking |
| Whom
Who |
Object
Subject |
Common Confused Words List 5
| House
Home |
Is still a house even if no one living inside it
Is a place where you live or the location |
| Accede
Concede |
to agree
to admit |
| Greed
Avarice |
desire for more than one needs
love for money for its own sake |
| Guarantee
Warranty |
Refers to promise
Used for products |
| Hardly
Scarcely |
with difficulty
hardly |
| Clumsy
Veracity |
ungainly
greed |
| Flee
Fly |
to run away
to move through the air on wings or in an aircraft |
| Then
Than |
At that time
Comparison |
| Piece
Peace |
Part, portion
Absence of war |
| House
Home |
building intended for habitation
the residence of family |
| Complacent
Complaisant |
pleased, satisfied
obliging |
| Hasten
Hurry |
to move with speed
to act with haste |
| Poor
Pore |
Have no money
Putting |
| Morale
Moral |
State of spirit
Lesson |
| Mitigate
Alleviate |
to make the burden mild punishment
to light the burden |
| Goal
Gaol |
destination
jail |
| Assure
Insure |
Removing doubts or anxiety
Pay for any damage or loss |
| Complete
Finish |
accomplish
to end |
| Advice
Advise |
Noun
Verb |
| Insight
Incite |
In depth
Provoke to action |
| recollect
remember |
that which we have difficulty in recalling
keep in mind |
Common Confused Words List 6
| Allude
Elude |
Make indirect reference
Escape from something |
| Appraise
Apprise |
To elevate
To inform or notify |
| Virtual
Virtuous |
for practical purposes
having model goodness |
| Wreck
Wreak |
ruin
take vengeance upon enemy |
| Principal
Principle |
Chief person, Head person
Rule, law |
| Popular
Populous |
pleasing to the people
full of people |
| All ready
Already |
Everything is ready
Happened earlier |
| Compensation
Remuneration |
reward for service
reward |
| Boldness
Courage |
courage of transient nature
the quality that enable men to meet danger without fear |
| Good
Goodly |
possessing desirable qualities
large; graceful |
| Cloth
Clothes |
Material cotton, wool
Items that we wear |
| Review
Revise |
To examine
Correction of errors |
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What are the commonly confused words?
Here are Some Commonly Confused words with meaning:
| Confidant
Confident |
Self-trust
Feel about a good outcome |
| Beside
Besides |
Next to
In addition to |
| Averse
Adverse |
Describes a situation
Goes against what you want |
| Assure
Insure |
Removing doubts or anxiety
Pay for any damage or loss |
| Appraise
Apprise |
To elevate
To inform or notify |
| Altar
Alter |
Place of religious ceremonies
Change |
| All ready
Already |
Everything is ready
Happened earlier |
| Advice
Advise |
Noun
Verb |
| Accident
Incident |
Bad event
Any event |
What are the most confusing words in English?
Here is a list of 10 Most confusing Words in English:
| Whom
Who |
Object
Subject |
| Piece
Peace |
Part, portion
Absence of war |
| Morale
Moral |
State of spirit
Lesson |
| Last
Latest |
Final
Most recent |
| Insight
Incite |
In-depth
Provoke to action |
| House
Home |
Is still a house even if no one living inside it
Is a place where you live or the location |
| Guarantee
Warranty |
Refers to promise
Used for products |
| Good
Well |
Adjective
Adverb |
| Gone to
Been to |
You’ve traveled and not returned yet
You’ve traveled and have already returned |
| Ensure
Insure |
Guarantee
Financial liability |
| Emigrate
Immigrate |
Leave your own country
Come and live in a country |