Words Commonly Confused

Conscience

• moral awareness

• occurring repedly

• something that complements

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

emigrate

• to leave a country

• to come into a country

• sweets to compare to a meal

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

immigrate

• to come into a country

• to end a life

• to leave a country

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

idle

• to rest or be at rest

• someone or something that is worshipped

• shows degree

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

whether

• if. Example: I don't know whether he'll be here.

• atmospheric conditions

• refers to time or order in which something else is done

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

whose

• possessive form: "Whose book is this?"

• who is.

• atmospheric conditions

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Lay

• to place/put down

• to rest or recline

• before; by this time

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Lie

• to rest or recline (lie, lay, lain)

• to place/put down (lay, laid)

• false idea or image

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

already

• before; by this time

• to give a suggestion

• entirely

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

Allusion

• reference to something or someone

• false idea or image

• a device for slowing or stopping

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4