Confusing Words

a few / few a little / little ability / capability above / over accept / except actual / current actually / currently adapt / adopt adapt / adopt / adept adverse / averse advice / advise affect / effect all / every allusion / illusion aloud / allowed already / yet / still alternate / alternative another / other / others answer / reply / respond appraise / apprise arrive / reach as / because / since ask / request assumption / presumption assure / ensure assure / ensure / insure attend / assist avoid / prevent beautiful / pretty because / because of before / ago below / under beside / besides between / among big / large / great board / bored borrow / lend both / either / neither brake / break breath / breathe bring / take buy / by / bye chance / opportunity choose / chose city / town classic / classical classic / cliché clever / smart coarse / course come / go complement / compliment complementary / complimentary comprehensive / comprehensible conscience / conscious continual / continuous continual / repeated convince / persuade credible / creditable credible / credulous customer / client decrease / reduce defuse / diffuse deny / reject desert / dessert despite / although despite / in spite of device / devise diary / dairy difficult / hard discover / invent discreet / discrete disinterested / uninterested during / for during / while each / every earn / win economic / economical economic / economy economic / financial effective / efficient either / too / also elicit / illicit eligible / illegible emigrate / immigrate eminent / imminent end / finish enough / too especially / specially eventually / finally expect / wait explicit / implicit fair / fare famous / popular farther / further fast / quick few / little fewer / less find / find out flammable / inflammable flower / flour form / from formally / formerly free / freely fun / funny goal / aim / purpose good / well grow / increase happen / occur hard / hardly hear / listen heel / heal here / hear high / highly historic / historical historic / prehistoric hope / expect house / home however / although human / humane imminent / eminent imply / infer in / into industrial / industrious ingenious / ingenuous its / it's job / work join / attend last / latest late / lately later / latest later / latter later / latter / latest learn / study leave / let lie / lay like / as look / seem look for / find lose / loose lose / loss mail / male make / do manage / succeed meal / food meet / meat miss / lose mistake / error moral / morale most / mostly much / many near / nearly nearby / nearly new / knew no / know notice / realize occupation / profession on / onto one / won oral / verbal pair / pear passed / past personal / personable personal / personnel perspective / prospective piece / peace plain / plane possibility / opportunity possibility / probability practical / practicable practical / pragmatic precede / proceed precedent / precedence prescribe / proscribe price / cost price / prize principal / principle problem / issue problem / trouble quiet / quite raise / arise recognize / realize recollect / remember refuse / deny regretful / regrettable remember / remind respectable / respectful / respective respectively / respectfully right / write rise / raise rob / steal role / roll salary / wage say / speak say / tell sea / see see / look / watch sensible / reasonable sensible / sensitive shop / store sight / site / cite since / for sit / seat small / little so / such so / therefore social / sociable some / any son / sun speak / talk specially / specifically spend / waste start / begin stationary / stationery street / road suggest / recommend teach / learn technical / technological temporary / temporal than / then their / there / they're though / thought / through to / too / two trip / travel / journey unless / if not until / by very / too waist / waste wait / weight wear / put on weather / whether week / weak while / whereas who / which / that whole / hole win / beat woman / women your / you're