This Week's Commonly Confused Words
Confusions arising from similar sounds, spellings, and meanings. Click the words to see their usage notes.
jurist, juror
sign, sing
opine, opinion
persecute, prosecute
right, rite, wright, write
loop, loupe
knot, not
toilet, toilette
denounce, renounce
re-collect, recollect
cynosure, sinecure
learn, teach
observance, observation
can, may, shall, will
portend, pretend
salvage, selvage
equivalent, equivocal
peaceable, peaceful
allusion, delusion, elusion, hallucination, illusion
desert, dessert
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