CONFUSING WORDS

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			CONFUSING WORDS
Sl. No.	Mistaken Word	Meaning	Example
1	Emigrant	A person who leaves one country to move to another	The Bangladeshi emigrants got on to the boat at Chittagong
	Immigrant	A person who enters on ecountry from another	The immigrants to India got off the boat in Howrah
2	Eminent	Well-known	Newton is an eminent scientist
	Imminent	About to happen	The documentary movie predicted that a flood was imminent
3	Feign	To give a false appearance of	To feign ignorance
	Faint	To lose consciousness briefly	Some people often faint at the sight of a mouse
4	Farther	At a greater distance	I can see him going farther
	Further	More	I have nothing further to tell you
5	Flaunt	To make gaudy display	Paris likes to flaunt her wealth
	Flout	To defy	Flouting traffic rules may put you in difficulty
6	Ideal	Perfect	There is no ideal solution to the poverty problem in India
	Idol	Object of Worship	Idol worship has made him blind to his coach's faults
7	Ingenious	Clever, Imaginative	Ingenious minds dream ambitious plans
	Ingenuous	Frank and Open	Deenanath Chauhan has an ingenuous way of believing everything she hears
8	Moral	Having high moral values as prescribed in moral books	Immorality has permeated in the lives of politicians to a great strength
	Morale	State of mind in terms of confidence and courage	The morale of our troops is high
9	Ordinance	Rule of Order	A new ordinance has been issued by the Government regarding the economic policy
	Ordnance	Arms, Arsenal	The ordnance factory at army HQ is quite old
10	Precede	To go in advance of	A precedes B in the alphabet
	Proceed	To go on or go forward	If there are no doubts, I will proceed with the next concept
11	Prescribe	To recommend or set down a rule to be followed	The Doctor prescribes complete rest for the patient
	Proscribe	To ban something	Doctor proscribed curd for the patient
12	Principal	i) Major, capital as opposed to interest ii)The principal of the school attended our concert	Carelessness is a principal cause of highway accidents
	Principle	A general rule of truth	A principled life is required to lead a happy life
13	Quiet	Calm, Still, Silent	Keep quiet, you might alert the birds
	Quit	To stop doing something	People who quit smoking leads a happy life
	Quite	Entirely, Really, Noticeably	Preeti felt quite ill during dinner
14	Rain	Liquid Precipitation	Their will be rain today- as per MET forecast
	Rein	A device used t0 guide a horse	Adjust the saddle and the reins
	Reign	The rule of a sovereign	It happened in the reign of Lord Mountbatten
15	Raise	To lift something	Police ordered the thief to raise both the hands and surrender
	Raze	To demolish	The authorities begin to raze the illegal complex
16	Septic	A bacterial infection	The wound developed into a septic because of negligence
	Skeptic	A person who always doubts	Fake placement records of B-schools make students skeptical
17	Simulate	To imitate or pretend	nowadays, drivers can get themselves trained on simulators
	Stimulate	Excite, Provoke, Inspire	Anna's speech could stimulate the whole nation
18	Sore	Unhappy, Bitter	He was quiet sore over his defeat
	Sour	Not sweet, Pungent	The grapes were quiet sour
	Soar	To rise high	His spirits soar when he got the call letter
19	Stationary	Static, Motionless	The car rammed into the stationary truck
	Stationery	Writing Material	Mr. Randheer owns the best stationery shop in town
20	Straight	Not curved or crooked	A straight line is the shortest distance between two points
	Strait	A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water, a distressing situation	i) We pass through the Strait of Gibraltar, ii) Our next door neighbour is in dire financial straits
21	Suit	A coat with matching trousers or skirt, a proceeding in a law court	i) Grandfather still wears a blue suit every Sunday, ii) Ram Bikemalani argued his Suite eloquently
	Suite	A set of rooms, of matching furniture	Ramesh reserved the Bridal suite at The TAJ for his wedding
22	Tamper	To meddle with	Ask children not to tamper with the equipments
	Temper	Disposition, Nature	He has a bad temper and that is why he is not very popular
23	urban	Belonging to the city or town	The villagers are fast migrating to urban areas
	urbane	Refined, Polished or Cultured	Having an Urbane personality is desirable for all the Sales people
24	vain	Conceited, Useless	i) That model is an unusually vain girl,   ii) He made several vain attempts to get a job
	vane	A direction Pointer	The weekend farmers bought a new weather vane for the barn
	vein	A blood vessel	In today's medical class, we were told about veins and arteries
25	Venal	Evil, Corrupt, Immoral	The venal act of bureaucrats have damaged the nation
	Venial	Something that can be pardoned	The venial mischief of the child are often overlooked
26	Waist	The narrow part of the body above the hips	He has a 34 inches waist
	Waste	Needless Consumption or destruction	Facebook is a total waste of time
27	Weather	Day to day climate	What is the weather forecast for today?
	Whether	If it be the case that	I don't know whether she would marry me or not
28	Whose	The possessive of the pronoun 'who'	Whose book is this?
	Who's	Who is/was	Who's going to dinner with me?
29	Your	The possessive of the pronoun 'you'	Is this your book?
	You're	You are	You're late for work
30	Can	Capable	Despite the warning, hooligans can create problems
	May	Permission	May I go out Sir?
31	Able	Power or strength in general	Despite going through Chemotherapy, Yuvraj is able to play cricket
	Capable	Power or strength in particular	He is capable of running for 2 hours continuously
32	Advice	Suggestion (Noun)	People who give unsolicited advice are not respected in the society
	Advise	Counsel (Verb)	I advise you to try to stay put in the hostel
33	Beside	Adjacent, Nearby	My house is beside church
	Besides	Also, as well as	Besides getting a technical knowhow, doing MBA will also give me practical exposure
34	Decent	Suitable, Respectable
	Descent	The act of coming down
	Dissent	To differ	Despite knowing the opinion of the minister, the officer dissented on the whole issue
35	Desert	Waste land, to abandon	Sahara is one of the biggest deserts in the world
	Dessert	The course at the end of  the dinner	Delicious dessert was served after dinner
36	Dual	Double	All long range aircrafts have dual engine
	Duel	Contest between two people	Duel between MSD and VS captaincy is detrimental for team performance