| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | accept / except | receive; excluding |
| 2. | adapt / adopt | adjust; take up |
| 3. | advice / advise | noun; verb |
| 4. | affect / effect | influence; result |
| 5. | allude / elude | refer indirectly; escape |
| 6. | allusion / illusion | indirect reference; false appearance |
| 7. | altar / alter | worship table; change |
| 8. | assure / ensure | promise; make certain |
| 9. | beside / besides | next to; in addition to |
| 10. | borrow / lend | take temporarily; give temporarily |
| 11. | brake / break | stop device; shatter |
| 12. | breath / breathe | air taken in; inhale exhale |
| 13. | bring / take | carry here; carry there |
| 14. | can / may | ability; permission |
| 15. | canvas / canvass | heavy cloth; solicit votes |
| 16. | cite / site | quote; location |
| 17. | complement / compliment | complete; praise |
| 18. | continual / continuous | repeated; unbroken |
| 19. | council / counsel | advisory group; advice |
| 20. | credible / credulous | believable; too ready to believe |
| 21. | defuse / diffuse | make less dangerous; spread widely |
| 22. | device / devise | tool; invent |
| 23. | die / dye | stop living; color material |
| 24. | discreet / discrete | tactful; separate |
| 25. | do / make | perform; create |
| 26. | dose / doze | measured medicine; nap lightly |
| 27. | elicit / illicit | draw out; illegal |
| 28. | emigrate / immigrate | leave a country; enter one |
| 29. | eminent / imminent | famous; about to happen |
| 30. | envelop / envelope | wrap; paper cover |
| 31. | especially / specially | particularly; for a special purpose |
| 32. | every day / everyday | each day; ordinary |
| 33. | farther / further | more distant; more advanced |
| 34. | fewer / less | countable; uncountable |
| 35. | figuratively / literally | not exact; exactly |
| 36. | flaunt / flout | show off; openly disobey |
| 37. | floor / ground | inside surface; earth or level |
| 38. | forgo / forego | go without; precede |
| 39. | formally / formerly | officially; previously |
| 40. | gorilla / guerrilla | ape; irregular fighter |
| 41. | grate / great | shred; very good |
| 42. | heal / heel | make well; back of foot |
| 43. | hear / listen | perceive sound; pay attention |
| 44. | historic / historical | important in history; related to history |
| 45. | hoard / horde | store secretly; large crowd |
| 46. | human / humane | person-related; kind |
| 47. | imply / infer | suggest; conclude |
| 48. | in / into | inside; moving inside |
| 49. | ingenious / ingenuous | clever; innocent and sincere |
| 50. | knew / new | understood before; recent |
| 51. | knight / night | armored noble; darkness period |
| 52. | later / latter | afterward; second of two |
| 53. | lay / lie | put down; recline |
| 54. | learn / teach | gain knowledge; give instruction |
| 55. | leave / let | go away; allow |
| 56. | loath / loathe | reluctant; hate |
| 57. | loose / lose | not tight; fail to keep |
| 58. | mail / male | post; man or boy |
| 59. | meat / meet | animal flesh; come together |
| 60. | medal / meddle | award; interfere |
| 61. | mist / missed | light fog; failed to catch |
| 62. | moral / morale | ethical lesson; group spirit |
| 63. | morning / mourning | early day; grieving |
| 64. | naval / navel | relating to ships; belly button |
| 65. | peak / peek | highest point; quick look |
| 66. | personal / personnel | private; staff |
| 67. | perspective / prospective | viewpoint; expected future |
| 68. | plain / plane | simple; flat surface or aircraft |
| 69. | pray / prey | worship; hunted animal |
| 70. | precede / proceed | come before; continue |
| 71. | prescribe / proscribe | order officially; forbid |
| 72. | principal / principle | main or head; rule |
| 73. | quiet / quite | silent; fairly or completely |
| 74. | raise / rise | lift; go up |
| 75. | reign / rein | rule; strap for steering |
| 76. | respectfully / respectively | politely; in the stated order |
| 77. | right / write | correct; put words down |
| 78. | role / roll | part played; turn over |
| 79. | sale / sail | selling event; travel by wind |
| 80. | sensible / sensitive | practical; easily affected |
| 81. | set / sit | place; be seated |
| 82. | shear / sheer | cut wool; complete or steep |
| 83. | sole / soul | only or foot bottom; spirit |
| 84. | stationary / stationery | not moving; writing materials |
| 85. | tale / tail | story; animal rear appendage |
| 86. | tenant / tenet | renter; belief principle |
| 87. | than / then | comparison; next or at that time |
| 88. | their / there | belonging to them; in that place |
| 89. | throne / thrown | royal seat; tossed |
| 90. | to / too | toward; also or excessively |
| 91. | vain / vein | self-important; blood vessel |
| 92. | waist / waste | midsection; misuse or trash |
| 93. | wait / weight | stay for; heaviness |
| 94. | waive / wave | give up; move hand |
| 95. | wander / wonder | roam; feel curiosity |
| 96. | way / weigh | path; measure heaviness |
| 97. | weather / whether | atmospheric conditions; if |
| 98. | who’s / whose | who is; belonging to whom |
| 99. | yoke / yolk | harness; egg center |
| 100. | your / you’re | possessive; you are |