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100 Commonly Misused Business Words

June 10, 2026

100 Commonly Misused Business Words

No. Item Definition
1. accept to receive willingly
2. adverse harmful or unfavorable
3. advice guidance or recommendation
4. advise to recommend or counsel
5. affect to influence or change
6. allusion an indirect reference
7. assure to reassure or promise
8. averse strongly opposed
9. born brought into life
10. borne carried or endured
11. breach a break or violation
12. capital money; chief city
13. capitol legislative building
14. complement something that completes another
15. compliment praise or admiration
16. continual frequent with interruptions
17. continuous without stopping
18. council advisory or governing group
19. counsel advice; lawyer
20. defuse to make less dangerous
21. deprecate to express disapproval of
22. depreciate to lose value
23. device a tool or machine
24. devise to invent or plan
25. diffuse spread out; dispersed
26. discreet careful and tactful
27. discrete separate and distinct
28. economic relating to the economy
29. economical cost-saving; thrifty
30. effect a result or outcome
31. elicit to draw out
32. eminent famous and respected
33. ensure to make certain
34. except excluding; other than
35. explicit clearly stated
36. farther more distant physically
37. faze to disturb or unsettle
38. fewer for countable things
39. flaunt to show off boldly
40. flout to openly disregard
41. further more; additional
42. grisly horrifying; gruesome
43. historic important in history
44. historical related to history
45. hoard to stockpile secretly
46. horde a large crowd
47. illicit illegal or forbidden
48. illusion a false appearance
49. imminent about to happen
50. implicit understood though unstated
51. imply to suggest indirectly
52. infer to conclude from evidence
53. ingenious clever and inventive
54. ingenuous innocent and sincere
55. insure to provide insurance for
56. its belonging to it
57. later afterward; subsequent
58. latter the second of two
59. lay to put something down
60. less for uncountable amounts
61. lie to recline or rest
62. loath reluctant or unwilling
63. loathe to hate intensely
64. marshal to arrange or organize
65. martial relating to war
66. moral ethical lesson or principle
67. morale group confidence or spirit
68. personal private; individual
69. personnel employees or staff
70. precede to come before
71. prescribe to order or authorize
72. principal main; highest in importance
73. principle a basic rule or belief
74. proceed to continue forward
75. proscribe to forbid or condemn
76. regimen prescribed routine
77. regiment military unit; control strictly
78. reign rule as monarch
79. rein strap for controlling a horse
80. respectfully with politeness or deference
81. respectively in the stated order
82. reticent reserved; not talkative
83. stationary not moving
84. stationery writing materials
85. tenant a renter
86. tenet a principle or belief
87. than used in comparisons
88. then at that time; next
89. there in or at that place
90. they’re they are
91. tortuous twisting; very complex
92. torturous extremely painful
93. waive to give up a right
94. whether if; expressing alternatives
95. who subject pronoun for people
96. who’s who is or who has
97. whom object pronoun for people
98. whose belonging to whom
99. you’re you are
100. your belonging to you
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