A | B |
Advice | noun--an opinion or guidance offered |
Advise | verb--to offer counsel or advice |
Affect | verb--to influence |
Effect | almost always a nounimpact occasionally a verbcause |
Allot | to distribute or apportion |
A lot | meaning a whole bunch |
All right | not alright |
Always | not allways |
Among | not amoung |
Analyze | not analyse (which is the British spelling) |
Anyway | nevertheless |
Any way | one or some + path or route |
Capitol | the building in which a legislature assembles |
Capital | a city that is a seat of government; wealth in money or property; first or foremost |
Catalog | or catalogue--not catelog(ue) |
Category | not catagory |
Choose | to make a selection |
Chose | past tense of choose |
Chosen | adjective (a _____people); past participle of the verb choose (I have _____to participate.) |
Company's | singular possessive (The _____work force is strong.) |
Companies | plural of company |
Companies' | plural possessive (The ______CEOs met with the President.) |
Convenience | anything that adds to ones comfort or saves work |
Council | an assembly of persons (The City _______meets on Tuesdays.) |
Counsel | the act of giving advice or the advice itself |
Definitely | certainly; positively |
Desirable | worth having; pleasing |
Develop | to show or work out by degrees; to make bigger |
Elicit | to bring out or draw forth |
Illicit | against the law or not permitted |
Explanation | something that explains; interpretation; meaning |
Immigrate | to enter and settle permanently in a foreign country (Pilgrims ____ed to Plymouth.) |
Emigrate | to leave one country or region to settle in another (They _____d from England.) |
Imminent | about to occur |
Eminent | prominent |
Irrespective | without respect or regard for |
Regardless | without regard |
Its | contraction of it is |
Its | possessive belonging to it |
Likelihood | chances of happening |
Loose | not fastened or restrained (My button is _____.) |
Lose | to suffer loss |
Filing | maintaining records in a business according to rules or organization |
Loyalty | noun faithfulness |
Morale | nounstate of spirits of a person or group |
Moral | adjectiveethical |
Of course | certainly |
Orient | verb meaning to make familiar or become acquainted with a situation |
Perceive | to understand; to become aware of through ones senses |
receive | to get something |
deceive | to trick |
Personal | pertaining to a particular person |
Personnel | the folks who work someplace |
Principal | first in rank or authority; can be the boss at a school; money |
Principle | a basic truth or assumption |
Proceed | to go forward |
Precede | to come before in time or order |
Questionnaire | a written or printed set of questions used in gathering information |
Rapport | sympathetic relationship; harmony |
Recur | to happen again |
Recurring | continuing to happen |
Respondent | the one who responds |
apparent | obvious |
consistent | occurring the same way |
dependent | depending on another |
Revert to | to go back to |
Sales | noun--volume of that which was sold |
Sells | verb--to exchange for money |
Separate | remember |
Sight | something that is seen |
Site | a place or location |
Cite | to quote as an authority or example |
Sophomore | the second year in high school or college (Latin for wise fool) |
Supposed to | expected to |
accustomed to | having the expectation that something will happen |
used to | did once |
Their | possessive |
There | adverb--meaning at or in that place (The car is over _____.) |
They're | contraction of they are |
Then | at that time |
Than | conjunction--introduces the second element of a comparison of inequality |
To | in the direction of |
Two | the number following one and preceding three |
Too | adverb--meaning also |
Undoubtedly | without a doubt |
Unique | one of a kind |
Whether | conjunctionif it is so that |
Weather | the state of the atmosphere |
You're | contraction of you are |
Your | possessive pronounbelonging to you |
Yore | time long past |