Tricky Lookalike Words !!!

[Zonky]

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Hope this proves to be helpful .The following pairs of words look similar and are easily confused with each other. Test writers often take advantage of this confusion. Some are very similar in meaning, while others are different. Know the difference!

 

1) adulate and adulterate

2) adverse and averse

3) anachronism and anarchism

4) antipathy and apathy

5) ascetic and aesthetic

6) baleful and baneful

7) censure and censor

8) capitulate and recapitulate

9) disparate and desperate

10) divers and diverse

11) Elicit and illicit

12) Heterogeneous and homogeneous

13) Illusion and allusion

14) imbibe and imbue

15) imminent and eminent

16) ingenious and ingenuous

17) mendicant and mendacious

18) penury and penurious

19) pestilence and petulance

20) qualitative and quantitative

 

 

[Paxi]

Thanks. That's quite useful.

I'll go over them a day or so before the exam to clarify any confusions that i may have.

 

Quite useful really.. hasn't been appreciated much here.

[Wanna1600]

awesome zonky! I apologise for those other 79 people who visited this thread, copy pasted your effort, mocked, chuckled and logged-out w/o a Thank You note.

[Zonky]

Wanna 1600 and Paxi, thank you so much for your kind words, I am really glad I could positively contribute to this community and help you guys out.... wish you all the luck for your GRE

[coldsun]

Good input, Zonky!!!