![]() Insidious: Cancer is an insidious disease. ![]() Inflammable: Petrol is a highly inflammable liquid. Incumbent (adj.): She felt it was incumbent on herself to act immediately. Incumbent(noun.) : The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office. Incoherent: The talk she gave was incoherent and badly prepared. Inchoate: She had a child's inchoate awareness of language. ![]() Gourmand: He's the kind of gourmand who swallows food without even pausing to taste. Gourmet: Food critics have to be gourmets in order to write about food in an informed way. Jetsam: The smallest bits of jetsam, like the most transient incidents in a life, can be the most evocative.įorego: So she did his bidding and gave him the cup, which no sooner had he drunk than his head forewent his feet.įorgo: Sometimes this priority shift means you have to forgo one goal in exchange for another. Trap: The train was trapped underground by a fire.įlotsam: The water was full of flotsam and refuse. Uninterested: He was uninterested in politics.Įntomb: The city was entombed in volcanic lava. ![]() Problem: The problem of street crime is getting worse every year.ĭisinterested: A lawyer should provide disinterested advice. Why not take a look at the words and see if you know the differences? You can use this as quiz to test your friends too!Įffect: The president effected several changes in the company.Īlibi: The police broke her alibi by proving she knew how to shoot a pistol.Īlternatives: New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.Ĭhoices: Our choices come down to staying here or leaving here.Īnticipate: What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question.Įxpect: I expect that the weather will be nice.įlagrant: The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law."īlatant: Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.Ĭhronic: For those with chronic depression, she said, "keep at it."Īcute: Acute dysentery wracked and sapped life from his body.Ĭompose: England, Scotland and Wales compose the island of Great Britain.Ĭomprise: After the 2014 referendum on independence for Scotland, the UK still comprised England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.Ĭontinual: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual war,” Madison concluded.Ĭontinuous: Continuous farming impoverishes the soil.Ĭrescendo: She spoke in a crescendo: "You are a bad girl! You are a wicked girl! You are evil!"Ĭlimax: The fifth scene was the climax of the play.ĭecimate: Famine decimated the population.ĭestroy: The soldiers destroyed the village.ĭilemma: Many women are faced with the dilemma of choosing between work and family commitments. The famous British journalist Harold Evans has written down a vocabulary list outlining 30 words that are confusing, and many people have treated them as synonym. Have you ever come across some words that just simply confused you? Let's take a look at some of the words that even a native speaker might find it difficult to get them right. ![]()
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