- Adjudged (requested) — Abjure (renounce)
- Accept (consent to receive) — Except (other than)
- Access (approach or enter) — Excess (more than necessary)
- Adopt (legally take) — Adapt (become adjusted)
- Advice (guidance) — Advise (offer recommendations)
- Affection (love) — Affectation (pretention)
- Enmity (feeling of active hostility) — Amity (Friendship)
- Amoral (lack moral sense) — Immoral (sinful)
- Appraise (assess or estimate) — Apprise (inform)
- Accede (agree) — Exceeds (surpass)
- Assent (permission) — Ascent (rising)
- Aural (heard) — Oral (spoken)
- Averse (strong dislike) — Adverse (harmful)
- Avocation (hobby) — Vocation (trade or profession)
- A lot (a large number) — Allot (give)
- All ready (completely prepared) — Already (by now)
- Allude (suggest) — Elude (evade or escape)
- Affect (make a difference to) — Effect (bring about)
- Amiable (lovable) — Amicable (friendly)
- A while (a time period) — Awhile (for short time)
- Anecdote (amusing story, tale) — Antidote (medicine)
- Besides (a part from) — Beside (next to)
- Censured (condemned) — Censor (judge)
- Childlike (innocent) — Childish (immature)
- Clothes (attire) — Cloths (fabric)
- Coarse (rough) — Course (route)
- Complimented (praise) — Complementing (accompany)
- Confident (assured) — Confidant (best friend)
- Connotes (suggest) — Denotes (indicates)
- Conscious (aware) — Conscience (sense of right)
- Counsel (advice) — Council (board, panel)
- Credible (acceptable) — Creditable (commendable)
- Criterion (basis) — Criteria (plural, basis)
- Dinning (loud noise) — Dining (eating activity)
- Dissent (disagreement) — Descent (going down)
- Diary (journal) — Dairy (made from milk)
- Demure (modest) — Demur (object)
- Dessert (dessert) — Desert (empty, abandon)
- Devise (conceive) — Device (gadget)
- Die (expire) — Dye (coloring)
- Discreet (careful) — Discrete (separate)
- Elicit (obtain) — Illicit (illegal)
- Eminent (prestigious) — Imminent (near)
- Epigram (slogan) — Epitaph (memorial)
- Everyday (daily) — Every Day (each day)
- Explicit (clear) — Implicit (indirect)
- Extent (area) — Extant (surviving)
Parent Tip: Review the logic above to help your child master the concept of multiple pairs of words meaning.
