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20 English Words That Look Similar but Don’t Mean the Same👨‍🏫✔️

1. Affect / Effect

Affect = to influence
Effect = result

2. Lose / Loose

Lose = misplace
Loose = not tight

3. Weather / Whether

Weather = climate
Whether = if

4. Quiet / Quite

Quiet = silent
Quite = very or fairly

5. Accept / Except

Accept = agree to receive
Except = excluding

6. Than / Then

Than = comparison
Then = time

7. Stationary / Stationery

Stationary = not moving
Stationery = writing materials

8. Were / Wear

Were = past tense of “are”
Wear = put on clothes

9. Desert / Dessert

Desert = dry land
Dessert = sweet food

10. Borrow / Lend

Borrow = take from someone
Lend = give to someone

11. Loose / Loss

Loose = not tight
Loss = something you no longer have

12. Principal / Principle

Principal = main/leader
Principle = rule or belief

13. Compliment / Complement

Compliment = praise
Complement = goes well with

14. Personal / Personnel

Personal = private
Personnel = staff

15. Farther / Further

Farther = physical distance
Further = metaphorical or figurative distance

16. Peek / Peak / Pique

Peek = to look quickly
Peak = top of a mountain or maximum point
Pique = to provoke or stimulate

17. Brake / Break

Brake = stop a vehicle
Break = to separate into pieces or rest

18. Capital / Capitol

Capital = city, money, or uppercase letter
Capitol = building where lawmakers meet

19. Allusion / Illusion

Allusion = indirect reference
Illusion = false appearance

20. Advice / Advise

Advice = noun (guidance)
Advise = verb (to give guidance)

🔥 English Slang Words You Should Know

1. No biggie = No problem
2. Hype = Excitement
3. Chill out = Relax
4. Epic = Amazing
5. Cool = Great
6. Hang out = Spend time together
7. My bad = My mistake
8. Hit me up = Contact me
9. YOLO = You only live once
10. Lit = Exciting or fun
11. Bummer = Disappointment
12. Salty = Angry or upset
13. Cram = Study hard in a short time
14. Ghost = Ignore or disappear
15. Bail = Leave suddenly
16. Flex = Show off
17. Low-key = Secretly
18. High-key = Openly
19. Throw shade = Insult indirectly
20. Savage = Bold or fearless

20 NEW ONE WORD SUBSTITUTIONS 📌

1. A person who talks too much = Loquacious

2. A person who loves to be alone = Introvert / Solitary

3. A person who spends money carelessly = Spendthrift

4. A person who learns easily = Quick-learner / Apt

5. A person who pretends to know everything = Pretentious / Know-it-all

6. A person who is always cheerful = Jovial

7. A person who can’t be satisfied = Insatiable

8. A person who is very careful with money = Frugal

9. A person who tells lies regularly = Liar / Mendacious

10. A person who is new at something = Novice / Beginner

11. A person who works without getting paid = Volunteer

12. A person sent to represent a country = Ambassador

13. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness = Neat freak / Fastidious

14. A person who is good at remembering things = Retentive

15. A story with a moral lesson = Fable

16. A thing that cannot be heard = Inaudible

17. A thing that cannot be seen = Invisible

18. A thing that cannot be changed = Irreversible

19. A person who acts against society = Anti-social

20. A thing that cannot be avoided = Inevitable

Harsh English vs Polite English 📌

1. Go away! → Could you step aside?
2. Give it! → Hand it over
3. Come here! → Listen!
4. Shut up! → Please be quiet
5. Sit down! → Take a seat
6. Join me → Hear me out
7. Wait → Hang on
8. Move! → Could you move, please?
9. Stop it! → Cut it out
10. Don’t touch that! → Kindly leave that alone
11. Quiet! → Lower your voice
12. Listen to me! → May I have your attention?
13. Give me that! → Could I have that, please?
14. Hurry up! → Speed up

💬 Common English Mistakes 🔥🧑

1. She go school ❌ → She goes to school ✅
2. He said me ❌ → He told me ✅
3. He don’t like it ❌ → He doesn’t like it ✅
4. She is more better ❌ → She is better ✅
5. I didn’t knew that ❌ → I didn’t know that ✅
6. I am interesting in music ❌ → I am interested in music ✅
7. He is my cousin brother ❌ → He is my cousin ✅
8. I am agree ❌ → I agree ✅
9. He is married with her ❌ → He is married to her ✅
10. I am here since 2 hours ❌ → I have been here for 2 hours ✅
11. I didn’t saw him ❌ → I didn’t see him ✅
12. He is more tall ❌ → He is taller ✅
13. She is good in singing ❌ → She is good at singing ✅
14. I’m looking forward to see you ❌ → I’m looking forward to seeing you ✅
15. It’s depends on you ❌ → It depends on you ✅
16. He is good in maths ❌ → He is good at maths ✅
17. She is afraid from dogs ❌ → She is afraid of dogs ✅
18. He is married with a doctor ❌ → He is married to a doctor ✅
19. I have visited Paris last year ❌ → I visited Paris last year ✅
20. He did a mistake ❌ → He made a mistake ✅

44 ENGLISH WORDS YOU NEVER THOUGHT EXISTED 😮

1. Apricity — warmth of the winter sun
2. Petrichor — the earthy smell after rain
3. Susurrus — a soft, whispering sound
4. Borborygmus — a rumbling stomach noise
5. Callipygian — having well-shaped buttocks
6. Defenestration — throwing someone out of a window
7. Limerence — intense romantic infatuation
8. Pareidolia — seeing patterns (like faces) in random things
9. Mondegreen — a misheard lyric or phrase
10. Spoonerism — swapping the first sounds of words
11. Tmesis — inserting a word inside another word
12. Zugzwang — being forced to make a bad move (chess)
13. Schadenfreude — pleasure from someone else’s misfortune
14. Weltschmerz — deep sadness about the world
15. Agelast — a person who never laughs
16. Clinomania — a strong desire to stay in bed
17. Psithurism — the sound of wind in trees
18. Nudiustertian — relating to the day before yesterday
19. Erinaceous — resembling a hedgehog
20. Crapulence — sickness from overeating or overdrinking
21. Kakistocracy — rule by the worst people
22. Quire — a set of 24 sheets of paper
23. Floccinaucinihilipilification — judging something as worthless
24. Tintinnabulation — the ringing of bells
25. Logorrhea — excessive talkativeness
26. Sesquipedalian — fond of long words
27. Blatherskite — a person who talks nonsense
28. Skedaddle — run away quickly
29. Kerfuffle — a fuss or commotion
30. Brouhaha — a noisy, excited reaction
31. Lollygag — waste time; dawdle
32. Cattywampus — crooked; askew
33. Discombobulate — to confuse
34. Hullabaloo — loud noise and confusion
35. Flummox — to bewilder; confuse
36. Nincompoop — a foolish person
37. Ragamuffin — a ragged, dirty child
38. Shenanigans — secret or dishonest tricks
39. Bamboozle — to trick or fool
40. Taradiddle — a petty lie; nonsense
41. Thingamajig — a thing whose name you forgot
42. Doohickey — a small gadget or device
43. Whippersnapper — an overly confident young person
44. Flibbertigibbet — a silly, flighty person

20 verbs in Present vs Past tense 🕰️

1. I eat – I ate
2. I go – I went
3. I buy – I bought
4. I find – I found
5. I choose – I chose
6. I feel – I felt
7. I see – I saw
8. I take – I took
9. I come – I came
10. I do – I did
11. I make – I made
12. I write – I wrote
13. I run – I ran
14. I speak – I spoke
15. I drink – I drank
16. I give – I gave
17. I know – I knew
18. I sleep – I slept
19. I sing – I sang
20. I read – I read (pronounced “red” in past)

20 ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION VOCABULARY 📌
1. A person who loves books = Bibliophile
2. A person who walks on foot = Pedestrian
3. A person who hates mankind = Misanthrope
4. A person who loves mankind = Philanthropist
5. A government by the people = Democracy
6. A government by a king = Monarchy
7. A government by the wealthy = Plutocracy
8. A place where animals are kept = Zoo
9. A place where weapons are stored = Arsenal
10. A person who speaks many languages = Polyglot / Multilingual
11. A speech given at a funeral = Eulogy
12. A person who cannot be defeated = Invincible
13. A person who cannot make mistakes = Infallible
14. One who looks on the bright side of life = Optimist
15. One who looks on the dark side of life = Pessimist
16. Something that lasts for a very short time = Ephemeral / Transient
17. A life story written by oneself = Autobiography
18. A life story written by someone else = Biography
19. One who eats too much = Glutton
20. One who is always doubting or questioning = Cynic / Skeptic

Basic vs Advanced IELTS Verbs
Do → Execute
Make → Devise
Use → Implement
Get → Obtain
Give → Distribute
Show → Demonstrate
Change → Transform
Improve → Refine
Start → Initiate
End → Culminate
Fix → Amend
Control → Regulate
Stop → Prevent
Help → Contribute
Deal with → Tackle