Confusing Words - 1

List of Confusing Words

• Afflict and Inflict
  Afflict means give pain or grief to 
  Inflict means impose something unpleasant on
• Allude and Elude
  Allude means refer to in an indirect way 
  
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  Elude means escape from, especially by cleverness
• Blatant and Flagrant
  Blatant means glaringly obvious 
  Flagrant means openly outrageous and offensive
• Bazaar and Bizarre
  Bazaar means a Middle Eastern Marketc 
  Bizarre means strange
• Berth and Birth
  Berth means a bunk in a ship, train, etc. 
  Birth means the emergence of a baby from the womb
• Born and Borne
  Born means having started life 
  Borne means to carry/transport
  Borne is the past particle of 'bear'
• Complacent and Complaisant
  Complacent means self-satisfied 
  Complaisant means willing to please
• Coarse and Course
  Coarse means rough 
  Course means a direction; a school subject; part of a meal
• Desert and Dessert
  Desert means dry or lifeless region 
  Dessert means sweet food served after a main course
• Dual and Duel
  Dual means having two parts 
  Duel means a fight or contest between two people
• Envelop and Envelope
  Envelop means to cover or surround 
  Envelope means a paper container for a letter
• Flaunt and Flout
  Flaunt means show off; boast; brandish 
  Flout means defy; disregard; spurn
• Flounder and Founder
  Flounder means falter, struggle or make mistakes 
  Founder means sink; break down or fail
• Lightening and Lightning
  Lightening means becoming less dark 
  Lightning means electrical discharge in the sky

• Pour and Pore
  Pour means to flow or cause to flow 
  Pore means a tiny opening; to study something closely
• Sceptic and Septic
  Sceptic means a person inclined to doubt 
  Septic means infected with bacteria
• Tortuous and Torturous
  Tortuous means full of twists; complex 
  Torturous means full of pain or suffering
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• Venal and Venial
  ​​​​​​​Venal means easily bribed; mercenary; corrupt 
  Venial means easily forgiven; pertaining to a minor sin
• Yoke and Yolk
  Yoke means a wooden crosspiece for harnessing a pair of oxen 
  Yolk means the yellow centre of an egg