| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | access / excess | entry or use / too much |
| 2. | adaptation / adoption | adjustment / taking as one’s own |
| 3. | all ready / already | fully prepared / by now |
| 4. | allusion / illusion | indirect reference / false appearance |
| 5. | amoral / immoral | without morality / against morality |
| 6. | any one / anyone | any single person / any person |
| 7. | any way / anyway | in any manner / regardless |
| 8. | ascent / assent | upward climb / agreement |
| 9. | bail / bale | release money / bundled goods |
| 10. | bazaar / bizarre | market / very strange |
| 11. | berth / birth | sleeping place / being born |
| 12. | breach / breech | break or gap / rear part |
| 13. | broach / brooch | raise a topic / decorative pin |
| 14. | cache / cash | hidden store / money |
| 15. | capital / capitol | city or wealth / legislative building |
| 16. | cellar / seller | underground storage / one who sells |
| 17. | censor / censure | suppress content / strong disapproval |
| 18. | cereal / serial | grain food / in sequence |
| 19. | chord / cord | musical combination / rope |
| 20. | complement / compliment | complete well / praise |
| 21. | corps / corpse | organized body / dead body |
| 22. | decent / descent | respectable / downward movement |
| 23. | defuse / diffuse | make less dangerous / spread widely |
| 24. | desert / dessert | arid land / sweet course |
| 25. | device / devise | tool / invent or plan |
| 26. | discreet / discrete | tactful / separate |
| 27. | dual / duel | twofold / formal fight |
| 28. | elicit / illicit | draw out / illegal |
| 29. | emigrate / immigrate | leave a country / enter a country |
| 30. | eminent / imminent | famous / about to happen |
| 31. | envelop / envelope | wrap around / paper container |
| 32. | every one / everyone | each person / all people |
| 33. | explicit / implicit | clearly stated / implied |
| 34. | farther / further | more distant / additional |
| 35. | faze / phase | disturb / stage |
| 36. | feint / faint | fake attack / weak or pale |
| 37. | flaunt / flout | show off / openly disregard |
| 38. | forbear / forebear | refrain / ancestor |
| 39. | foreword / forward | book introduction / ahead direction |
| 40. | formally / formerly | officially / previously |
| 41. | gait / gate | manner of walking / entrance barrier |
| 42. | gorilla / guerrilla | large ape / irregular fighter |
| 43. | grate / great | shred / very good |
| 44. | grisly / grizzly | horrifying / grayish or bear |
| 45. | hall / haul | large room / pull or transport |
| 46. | hanger / hangar | hook / aircraft shelter |
| 47. | hardy / hearty | robust / warm and enthusiastic |
| 48. | heroin / heroine | drug / female hero |
| 49. | hoard / horde | stockpile / large crowd |
| 50. | hole / whole | opening / complete |
| 51. | idle / idol | inactive / object of worship |
| 52. | imply / infer | suggest / conclude |
| 53. | incidence / incidents | rate of occurrence / events |
| 54. | ingenious / ingenuous | clever / innocent and sincere |
| 55. | jibe / gibe | agree / taunt |
| 56. | kernel / colonel | seed core / military rank |
| 57. | knave / nave | rogue / church central aisle |
| 58. | later / latter | afterward / second of two |
| 59. | lay / lie | put down / recline |
| 60. | leach / leech | drain out / bloodsucking worm |
| 61. | lead / led | metal / past of lead |
| 62. | lessen / lesson | make smaller / teaching unit |
| 63. | lightening / lightning | becoming lighter / electrical storm flash |
| 64. | manor / manner | large estate / way of doing |
| 65. | marshal / martial | arrange or officer / warlike |
| 66. | may be / maybe | might be / perhaps |
| 67. | medal / meddle | award / interfere |
| 68. | miner / minor | one who mines / lesser or underage |
| 69. | moral / morale | ethical lesson / group spirit |
| 70. | naval / navel | related to navy / belly button |
| 71. | no one / none | nobody / not any |
| 72. | noise / noose | sound / hanging loop |
| 73. | notable / noticeable | important / easy to notice |
| 74. | ordinance / ordnance | law / military weapons |
| 75. | palette / pallet | paint board / flat transport platform |
| 76. | patience / patients | calm endurance / people receiving treatment |
| 77. | peak / peek | highest point / quick look |
| 78. | plain / plane | simple or flat / aircraft or surface |
| 79. | pole / poll | long rod / vote survey |
| 80. | premier / premiere | leading or first / first performance |
| 81. | principal / principle | main or school head / rule |
| 82. | profit / prophet | financial gain / inspired messenger |
| 83. | rap / wrap | tap or genre / cover around |
| 84. | reign / rein | rule / strap for steering |
| 85. | right / rite | correct or entitlement / ritual |
| 86. | role / roll | part played / turn or list |
| 87. | root / route | plant base / path |
| 88. | sail / sale | boat cloth / selling event |
| 89. | sear / sere | burn surface / dry and withered |
| 90. | sensual / sensuous | sexual pleasure-related / appealing to senses |
| 91. | shear / sheer | cut off / steep or pure |
| 92. | site / sight | location / vision or view |
| 93. | sole / soul | only or foot bottom / spirit |
| 94. | stationary / stationery | not moving / writing materials |
| 95. | straight / strait | not curved / narrow passage |
| 96. | tail / tale | animal rear appendage / story |
| 97. | vain / vein | conceited / blood vessel |
| 98. | waist / waste | midsection / misuse or garbage |
| 99. | waive / wave | give up / moving gesture |
| 100. | yoke / yolk | wooden harness / egg center |