Word Confusion: Predominant versus Predominate
The need to write is predominant in writers, predominating their very lives in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
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Word Confusion: Backward versus Backwards
The American backward is both adjective and adverb while the British backwards is an adverb in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Tic versus Tick
A tic is a movement or behavior while a tick can range from that nasty, biting insect to a mattress to a clock to ticking things off in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Euphemism versus Synonym
A euphemism is a more polite synonym in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Anile versus Senile
A simple distinction with anile referring to an old woman and senile referring to an old man — and all the ills of old age that accompany either sex in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Hieroglyph vs Petroglyph vs Pictograph
Hieroglyphs are a combination of petroglyph and pictograph written onto a monument wall while petroglyphs are carved onto rock and pictographs had been painted onto rock in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Amused versus Amusing
It’s the difference between amusing people by being entertaining and being amused by being entertained in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: All of a Sudden vs All of the Sudden
Of all of the sudden choices I could make — note that the emphasis becomes the sudden choices when using the — it came to what was at the top of the list, all of a sudden, in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Youth versus Youths
A youth can be a generic reference to young people everywhere or to a single young man. Youths obviously means more than one person and can include females, and yet it usually refers to multiple young men in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Glamor versus Glamour
Most of us like to glamour up for a party or hope to glamor someone into liking us in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.