Commonly confused words
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Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
(Accept vs. Except) It's the word that means to receive.
What is accept?
100
It's Greek for mankind.
What is ANTHROPOS?
100
(Loan vs. Lend) It's the one that can only be used as a noun.
What is loan?
100
They literally mean love of mankind and hate of mankind, respectively.
What is philanthropy and misanthropy?
100
It's the word spelled correctly here--hisself, recieve, a lot.
What is a lot?
200
(uninterested vs. disinterested) It's the one that means bored.
What is uninterested?
200
It's Greek for self.
What is AUTOS?
200
It means the study of family records or family descent.
What is genealogy?
200
From the Latin AMO- (to love), it literally means to be in love with.
What is enamored?
200
(Compose vs. Comprise) It's the one that means "include".
What is comprise?
300
(Affect vs. Effect) It's the verb.
What is affect?
300
Like its Latin cousin MORT-, this root is Greek for death.
What is THANATOS?
300
It means support, financial or by other means.
What is patronage?
300
It's the meaning of the bold word. Horses have an innate ability to walk at birth.
What is natural (or born with)?
300
(Of, For, Because) It's the one that is not a preposition.
What is because?
400
(Quote vs. Quotation) It's the noun.
What is quotation?
400
It's Greek for friend or love.
What is PHILOS or PHILEO?
400
It means socializing, especially with the enemy.
What is fraternizing?
400
They mean mother and father, respectively.
What is MATER- and PATER-?
400
It's the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence. Since I'm not going to Washington D.C. this year, I want to wish you all an excellent trip.
What is since?
500
(Eager vs. Anxious) It's the one that means nervous.
What is anxious?
500
It's Greek for fear.
What is PHOBOS?
500
Related to the Greek root for "self", it's a ruler with absolute power, a despot.
What is an autocrat?
500
They literally mean love of mankind and hate of mankind, respectively.
What are philanthropy and misanthropy?
500
(Every day vs. Everyday) It's the one you use as an adjective.
What is everyday?