Commonly Confused Words 1

to counsel

• advice

• advise

to influence

• affect

• effect

to shatter or sever

• brake

• break

punishable by death

• capital

• capitol

path of action or progress

• coarse

• course

something that completes or makes perfect

• complement

• compliment

a group called together to accomplish a job

• consul

• council

• counsel

the final course of a meal

• desert

• dessert

previously, in the past

• formally

• formerly