AP Lang Semester 2 Week 1

Gary S.
Commonly confused words, week 1
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  1. accept
    receive willingly something given or offered
  2. except
    prevent from being included or considered or accepted
  3. adapt
    make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
  4. adopt
    take into one's family
  5. adverse
    in an opposing direction
  6. averse
    strongly opposed
  7. affect
    have an influence upon
  8. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  9. afflict
    cause physical pain or suffering in
  10. inflict
    impose something unpleasant
  11. aggravate
    make worse
  12. irritate
    cause annoyance in
  13. allude
    make an indirect reference to
  14. elude
    escape, either physically or mentally
  15. alternate
    go back and forth
  16. alternative
    one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
  17. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  18. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  19. aberrant
    markedly different from an accepted norm
  20. abhorrent
    offensive to the mind
Created on Sat Jan 19 19:48:58 EST 2013 (updated Sun Jan 20 20:10:36 EST 2013)

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