Monday, 1 May 2017

                                Words often confused



En más de una oportunidad podemos descubrirnos buscando "una vez más" ese par de palabras que nos hacen dudar.
En algún momento puede ser de ayuda contar con varias de ellas y por eso las incluí en esta entrada. Con la indispensable ayuda de los diccionarios "Oxford y Cambridge" espero ser útil con esta selección de palabras que presentaré semanalmente siguiendo un orden alfabético.

adverse: harmful, unfavourable
averse: opposed, strongly diliking

advice: recommendations about what to do
advise: to recommend something

aisle: a passage between rows of seats
isle: an island

all together: all in one place, all at once
altogether: completely, on the whole

amoral: not concerned with right or wrong
immoral: not following accepted moral standards

canvas: a type of strong cloth
canvass: to seek people´s votes

censure: to criticize strongly
censor: to ban parts of a book or film. A person who does this

coarse: (adj) vulgar, obscene, crude. Unrefined. Of inferior quality
course: (noun) 

  • an area of land used for a sports event (a golf course)
  • the often gradual development of something or the way something happens

          "In the course of the meeting...." (=during)

  • The direction in which a vehicle, esp. a aircraft moves,or the path along which a river flows
  • a part of a meal that is served separately from the other parts
  • a fixed number of regular medical treatments
  • a continuous horizontal layer of bricks
  • (vb) to flow quickly or in large amounts                        


cue: a signal for action, a wooden rod
queue: a line of people or vehicles

desert: a waterless, empty area. To abandon.
dessert: the sweet course of a meal

discreet: careful not to attract attention
discrete: separate and distinct

disinterested: impartial
uninterested: not interested

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