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Easily Confused Words
1. 1) excessively / exceedingly
b The new hotel in our village charges excessively high prices for what is a very
ordinary room.
2) unreasonable / irrational
3) infer / imply
a The article seemed to imply that the singer was sufferimg from depression.
b The police were able to infer from his statement that he had not returned
home that night.
4) classic / classical
b I made the classic mistake of asking after her boyfriend when they'd split up
the previous week.
5) borne / born
b The twins were born prematurely, but they were both very healthy.
6) possibility / opportunity
b We had to rule out the possibility of early retirement when we found out
how our pension would be.
2. 1) Ruby took her phone off the hook because of continuous interruptions
from her friends.
5) The first moon landing was, for me, the most historical event of the
twentieth century.
7) Escape was impossible because of the high wall surrounding the complex.
1) classic / classical
2) unreasonable / irrational
3) possibility / opportunity
4) imply / infer
5) excessively / exceedingly
6) borne / born
borne – past participle od glagola bear u svim značenjima, osim onog vezanog
ra rođenje. Može se koristiti kao sinonim za nošenje, trpljenje, čuvanje.
born – past participle glagola bear samo kada se koristi u značenju rođenja.