Words Commonly Confused

Conscience

• moral awareness

• occurring repedly

• something that complements

emigrate

• to leave a country

• to come into a country

• sweets to compare to a meal

immigrate

• to come into a country

• to end a life

• to leave a country

idle

• to rest or be at rest

• someone or something that is worshipped

• shows degree

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

whose

• possessive form: "Whose book is this?"

• who is.

• atmospheric conditions

Lay

• to place/put down

• to rest or recline

• before; by this time

Lie

• to rest or recline (lie, lay, lain)

• to place/put down (lay, laid)

• false idea or image

already

• before; by this time

• to give a suggestion

• entirely

Allusion

• reference to something or someone

• false idea or image

• a device for slowing or stopping