Commonly Confused Words

Question 1

Always

Answer 1

All the time, continuously

Question 2

Still

Answer 2

Continuing now, as in the past

Question 3

Again

Answer 3

Once more, another time

Question 4

Arrive

Answer 4

To come to a place, to reach a destination

Question 5

Happen

Answer 5

To occur, to take place

Question 6

Borrow

Answer 6

To obtain with a promise to return it

Question 7

Lend

Answer 7

To allow the use of something on the condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

Question 8

Lose

Answer 8

To fail to keep, preserve, or maintain.

Question 9

Loss

Answer 9

The act of losing possession of something

Question 10

Loose

Answer 10

Not tight; free or released from being attached

Question 11

Live

Answer 11

To be alive, to exist, to reside in a place

Question 12

Leave

Answer 12

To go out of or away from, as a place

Question 13

Let

Answer 13

To allow or permit

Question 14

Pass

Answer 14

To gain an adequate or required mark in a test, the minimum grade to have success in a test.

Question 15

Spend

Answer 15

To employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding

Question 16

Succeed

Answer 16

To accomplish what is intended or desired

Question 17

Remember

Answer 17

To recall to the mind, to think of again

Question 18

Remind

Answer 18

To cause (a person) to remember, to think of someone or something

Question 19

Earn

Answer 19

To receive in return for one’s labor or service

Question 20

Win

Answer 20

To finish first, as in a race or contest

Question 21

Quit

Answer 21

To stop, cease, or discontinue, to stop working at a job

Question 22

Leave

Answer 22

To go out of or away from, as a place

Question 23

Learn

Answer 23

To gain or acquise knowledge of or a skill in, by study, instruction, or experience

Question 24

Teach

Answer 24

To impart knowledge of, or a skill in

Question 25

Dead

Answer 25

No longer living, not alive

Question 26

Died

Answer 26

The simple past tense of to die

Question 27

Death

Answer 27

The act of dying, the end of life

Question 28

Fun

Answer 28

Something that provides amusement, that is enjoyable

Question 29

Funny

Answer 29

Comical, causing amusement, that is enjoyable

Question 30

Really

Answer 30

Is an adverb that intensifies adj., verbs, and other adv. It is more emotional and less formal than very.

Question 31

Very

Answer 31

Is an adv that intensifies adj, other adv, but NOT VERBS. It is less emotional than really.

Question 32

That

Answer 32

Used to refer to a person or thing pointed out or mentioned before

Question 33

Then

Answer 33

At that time, immediately or soon after, or next in order of time or place

Question 34

Than

Answer 34

Used after comparative adj and adv and certain other words, such as other more, etc., to introduce the second part of a comparaison: bigger than, other than, etc.

Question 35

Like

Answer 35

Like (same form, appearance, kind, or character) takes a noun or pronoun: like you; like he does; she acts like we do.

Question 36

As

Answer 36

(In the manner) takes a clause (subject and verb) as its complement; comme in French. It may be shortened to just the auxiliary verb or just the subject: As his friend; as I imagined; as previously mentioned, etc.
Similarity/equality between one person/thing and another : He is as sly as a fox; he is as nice as Bob.