words you might confuse

Watch out for words that are easily confused for each other, such as the following:

• • amount for quantity

  • anticipate for expect

  • anxious for eager

• • baited for bated

  • compulsion for compunction

  • continuous for continual

  • disinterested for uninterested

  • enervate for stimulate

  • fortuitous for fortunate

  • fulsome for full

  • historic for historical

  • inflammable for not flammable

  • ironic for coincidental

  • legacy for inheritance

  • noisome for noisy

  • partly for partially

  • practicable for practical

  • torturous for tortuous

  • and substituting preceding, previous, and prior for each other incorrectly.