VI List of Words for Exercises in Word Usage
Ability, capacity.
Accept, except.
Acceptance, acceptation.
Access, accession.
Accredit, credit.
Act, Action
Admire, like.
Admittance, admission.
Advance, advancement, progress, progression.
Affect, effect.
After, afterward.
Aggravating, irritating, provoking, exasperating.
Allege, maintain
Allow, guess, think.
Allusion, illusion, delusion.
Almost, most, mostly.
Alone, only.
Alternate, choice.
Among, between.
Amount, number, quantity.
Angry, mad.
Apparently, evidently.
Apt, likely, liable.
Arise, rise.
At, in.
Avocation, vocation.
Awfully, very.
Balance, rest, remainder.
Begin, commence.
Beside, besides.
Both, each, every.
Bring, fetch.
By, with.
Calculate, intend.
Carry, bring, fetch.
Casuality, casualty.
Character, reputation.
Claim, assert.
Clever, pleasant.
College, university, school.
Completeness, completion.
Compliment, complement.
Confess, admit.
Construe, construct.
Contemptible, contemptuous.
Continual, continuous.
Convince, convict.
Council, counsel.
Couple, pair.
Credible, creditable, credulous.
Custom, habit.
Deadly, deathly.
Decided, decisive.
Decimate, destroy.
Declare, assert.
Degrade, demean.
Depot, station, R.R.
Discover, invent.
Drive, ride.
Each other, any other, one another.
Emigration, immigration, migration.
Enormity, enormousness.
Estimate, esteem.
Exceptional, exceptionable.
Expect, suppose.
Falseness, falsity.
Fly, flee.
Funny, odd.
Grant, give.
Habit, practice.
Haply, happily.
Healthy, healthful, wholesome.
Human, humane.
Lady, woman.
Last, latest, preceding.
Learn, teach.
Lease, hire.
Less, fewer.
Lie, lay.
Loan, lend.
Love, like.
Mad, angry.
Majority, plurality.
Manly, mannish.
May, can.
Mutual, common.
Necessities, necessaries.
Nice, pleasant, attractive.
Noted, notorious.
Observation, observance.
Official, officious.
Oral, verbal.