accept/except

adverse/averse
affect/effect
altar/alter
boarder/border
broach/brooch
callous/callus
casual/causal
censor/censure
cite/site/sight
climactic/climatic
compliment/complement
conscience/conscious
desert/dessert
discreet/discrete
elude/allude
eminent/imminent
ensure/insure
elicit/illicit
hanger/hangar
illusion/allusion
incidents/incidence
isle/aisle
its/it’s
led/lead
liquor/liqueur
lose/loose
naval/navel
oral/aural
palette/palate
populace/populous
precede/proceed
prescribe/proscribe
principle/principal
right/write/rite
stationary/stationery
tenet/tenant
there/their/they’re
tortuous/torturous
waver/waiver
whose/who’s
your/you’re

Expanding Vocabulary Lists

Your challenge is to learn how to spell these words, what they

mean and how to use them in a sentence.
1. complacency
2. ravenous
3. elude
4. desolation
5. scrutiny
6. connive
7. aberration
8. brusque
9. derived
10. explicit
11. confidant
12. imprecation
13. vicariously
14. blithe
15. dissuade
16. divulge
17. reproach
18. contumaciously
19. abhor
20. coherent
21. exonerate
22. acquiesce
23. erudition
24. perspicuous
25. contemptible
26. capricious
27. penitent
28. hypocrisy
29. impeccable
30. impertinent
31. ignominiously
32. genteel
33. rumination
34. felicitous
35. reverence
36. avarice
37. brazen
38. cynical
39. debase
40. enmity
41. indiscriminate
42. amiable
43. ostentatious
44. benevolent
45. sagacious
46. stipulate
47. altercation
48. aberration
49. disparagement
50. arcane
51. gratuitous
52. haughty
53. implacable
54. appease
55. maxim
56. meticulous,
57. candour,
58. venerable
59. zenith
60. fractious
61. alacrity
62. circumspect
63. myriad
64. nadir
65. nominal
66. deferential
67. eloquent
68. inept
69. infamy
70. lurid
71. intrepid,
72. inveterate
73. jubilant
74. lithe
75. callous
76. umbrage
77. insatiable
78. insular
79. morose
80. novice
81. extol
82. fabricate
83. feral
84. incisive
85. indolent
86. maverick
87. cajole
88. modicum
89. erudite
90. forsake
91. vociferous
92. wanton
93. penchant
94. perusal
95. plethora
96. predilection
97. quaint
98. refurbish
99. repudiate
100. rife
101. diligent
102. elated
103. obtuse
104. staid
105. superfluous
106. sycophant
107. clandestine
108. coerce
109. demure
110. discombobulate
111. furtive
112. impudent
113. nuance
114. obsequious
115. salient
116. serendipity
117. taciturn
118. truculent
119. irascible
120. insufferable