WritingSkills.web.id - There are some words in English which sound alike, but actually they have different meaning. The following is a tabl...
WritingSkills.web.id - There are some words in English which sound alike, but actually they have different meaning.
The following is a table containing sound-alike words from A to Z in English and their meaning.
| Words | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Accept | to receive |
| Except | to exclude |
| - | - |
| Adapt | to suit |
| Adept | proficient |
| Adopt | to tailor, modify |
| - | - |
| Advise | to counsel (verb) |
| Advice | (noun) counsel |
| - | - |
| Affect | to influence, to change (verb) |
| Effect | a result; (verb) to bring about |
| - | - |
| All ready | prepared |
| Already | previously |
| - | - |
| Assent | consent |
| Ascent | rise |
| - | - |
| Cite | to summon, to quote (verb) |
| Sight | a view |
| Site | (verb) to see a location |
| - | - |
| Coarse | common, rough |
| Course | a direction of progress |
| - | - |
| Commence | to begin |
| Comment | (noun) a remark; (verb) to remark |
| - | - |
| Correspondents | writers |
| Correspondence | letters, other written communication |
| - | - |
| Counsel | (noun) advice; (verb) to advise |
| Council | a group, an assembly |
| - | - |
| Decent | proper, respectable |
| Descent | (noun) act of descending |
| Descend | (verb) to come down |
| Dissent | (noun) disagreement; (verb) to disagree |
| - | - |
| Deposition | testimony |
| Disposition | disposal, temperament |
| - | - |
| Digression | deviation |
| Discretion | judgment, prudence |
| - | - |
| Dissolution | termination, breaking up |
| Disillusion | to free from false impression |
| - | - |
| Enforce | to force, to compel |
| In force | in power, in effect |
| - | - |
| Elicit | to draw out |
| Illicit | illegal, improper |
| - | - |
| Enclose | to place within |
| Inclose | in legal use, preferred in speaking of land |
| - | - |
| Exceed | to surpass |
| Accede | to agree |
| - | - |
| Formally | ceremoniously |
| Formerly | in times past |
| - | - |
| Forth | away, forward |
| Fourth | the number: 4 |
| - | - |
| Farther | in space |
| Further | in thought, in space |
| - | - |
| Later | comparative form of late |
| Latter | second of two mentioned |
| - | - |
| Loose | unattached, free |
| Lose | to suffer loss |
| - | - |
| Precede | to go before |
| Proceed | to begin, to continue |
| - | - |
| Release | (noun) liberation; (verb) to free |
| Relief | aid, comfort |
| Relieve | to ease, to remove burden |
| - | - |
| They’re | contraction of they are |
| Their | possessive pronoun |
| There | adverb showing location |
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