ADVERSE 🆚 AVERSE

⚫️ ADVERSE : unfavorable

• an adverse reaction to the medication.

⚪️ AVERSE : not fond of; seeking to avoid

• averse to risk.

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🔘Difference between:

TAUGHT , TAUT , TAUT , TOT

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✨AID 🆚 AIDE✨

• An aid is a thing that helps.
• An aide is a living helper or assistant.

🍃His aide brought first aid.

✨AIL 🆚 ALE✨

• Ail: to be ill.
• Ale: an alcoholic beverage.

✨AISLE 🆚 ISLE✨

• Aisle: a corridor.
• Isle: an island.

✨ALL READY 🆚 ALREADY✨

• All ready means that everything or everyone is now ready.
• Already refers to something accomplished earlier.

🍃We already ate.


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✨ALL TOGETHER 🆚 ALTOGETHER✨

• All together: in a group
🍃 We’re all together in this.

• Altogether: entirely
🍃It is not altogether his fault.


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✨ALLUDE 🆚 ELUDE 🆚 REFER✨


• Allude means “to mention indirectly.”

⚠️Do not confuse allude with refer.

If we say, “Good old Joe is here,” we refer to Joe.

If we say, “That man with the ready laugh is here,” we allude to Joe, but we never mention his name.

• Allude is also sometimes confused with elude, which means “to escape” or “avoid capture.”


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✨AD 🆚 ADD✨

• Ad: short for “advertisement.”

• Add: to include; to perform addition.


✨ADAPT 🆚 ADOPT✨

• To adapt is to take something and change it for a special purpose.

🍃A screenwriter adapts a book to make it work as a movie.

🍃An organism adapts (itself) to a new environment.

• To adopt is to take something and use it or make it your own.

🍃A government adopts a different policy.

🍃A family adopts an orphan.


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✨ AFFECT 🆚 EFFECT ✨

• Affect :

~ as a verb means “to influence”

🍃It affected me strangely.

~ as a noun, it is a technical term used in psychology to describe someone’s emotional state.

• Effect :

~ as a noun means “result”

🍃It had a strange effect on me.

~ as a verb, it means “to bring about” or “to cause”

🍃He’s trying to effect change in government.


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✨ALL TOGETHER 🆚
ALTOGETHER✨

• All together: in a group

🍃 We’re all together in this.

• Altogether: entirely

🍃 It is not altogether his fault.


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