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Advanced-level word pairs that even confident English speakers sometimes mix up.

All Levels A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

52 word groups found

economic / economical

historic / historical

effective / efficient

imply / infer

assure / ensure / insure

continual / continuous

alternate / alternative

classic / classical

sensible / sensitive

respectable / respectful / respective

industrial / industrious

comprehensive / comprehensible

credible / credulous

eminent / imminent

explicit / implicit

practical / practicable

prescribe / proscribe

adapt / adopt / adept

adverse / averse

allusion / illusion

appraise / apprise

disinterested / uninterested

elicit / illicit

ingenious / ingenuous

perspective / prospective

respectively / respectfully

complementary / complimentary

credible / creditable

defuse / diffuse

discreet / discrete

emigrate / immigrate

farther / further

flammable / inflammable

formally / formerly

human / humane

imminent / eminent

later / latest

personal / personable

precedent / precedence

economic / economy

classic / cliché

eligible / illegible

later / latter / latest

oral / verbal

practical / pragmatic

raise / arise

recollect / remember

regretful / regrettable

social / sociable

technical / technological

temporary / temporal

assumption / presumption

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