100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles
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100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles

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eBook - ePub

100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles

About this book

Eliminate mistakes and improve your vocabulary with this engaging guide to the world's most misused words.
 
Do you know your delegate from your relegate, your cachet from your cache?
 
At one time or another we've all suffered the embarrassment of having our remarks corrected by a family member, colleague, or stranger. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles presents fifty pairs of words that people have trouble getting right and keeping straight—words that tend to get corrected when we're least expecting it.
 
These words include near-synonyms—words with subtle but important distinctions in meaning—like baleful vs. baneful, and effectual vs. efficacious. Other pairings bring together notorious sound-alikes, like faze (bother) vs. phase (stage), pour (put in fluid) vs. pore (read closely), and waive (forgo) vs. wave (say hello). The book also addresses some classic spelling blunders and "nonwords," like beyond the pail, full reign, injust, and inobstrusive.
 
Each word has a definition and a pronunciation, and most have etymologies explaining the word's origin. The mix-ups themselves are described in fun-to-read notes that provide clear solutions to help readers avoid making needless, uncomfortable gaffes.
 
100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles gives readers the chance to improve their command of words that are often heard but just as often misused.

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Information

Publisher
Reference
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780547506012
Subtopic
Tecniche di scrittura e presentazione

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. Guide to the Entries
  6. Pronunciation Guide
  7. Pronunciation Key
  8. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles
  9. adherence
  10. adhesion
  11. adopted
  12. adoptive
  13. amend
  14. baleful
  15. baneful
  16. beyond the pale
  17. cache
  18. cachet
  19. condemn
  20. congenital
  21. contemn
  22. contemptible
  23. contemptuous
  24. delegate
  25. deprecate
  26. depreciate
  27. distinct
  28. distinctive
  29. emend
  30. energize
  31. enervate
  32. exceptionable
  33. exceptional
  34. expedient
  35. expeditious
  36. faze
  37. flounder
  38. founder
  39. free rein
  40. gambit
  41. gamut
  42. gibe
  43. gotten
  44. gybe
  45. historic
  46. historical
  47. hoard
  48. horde
  49. injustice
  50. jibe¹
  51. jibe²
  52. jibe³
  53. jive
  54. lend
  55. load
  56. loan
  57. lode
  58. majority
  59. masterful
  60. masterly
  61. militate
  62. mitigate
  63. no holds barred
  64. old
  65. older
  66. ordinance
  67. ordnance
  68. passed
  69. past
  70. peace
  71. peremptory
  72. phase
  73. piece
  74. plurality
  75. pore
  76. pour
  77. practicable
  78. practical
  79. preemptive
  80. rationale
  81. rationalization
  82. relegate
  83. repress
  84. restive
  85. restless
  86. shined
  87. shone
  88. sleight of hand
  89. slew¹
  90. slew²
  91. slew³
  92. slough¹
  93. slough²
  94. slue
  95. suppress
  96. tenant
  97. tenet
  98. throe
  99. toe the line
  100. unexceptionable
  101. unexceptional
  102. unjust
  103. venal
  104. venial
  105. waive
  106. wangle
  107. wave
  108. wrangle
  109. The 100 Words