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Confusing words - part 45




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Confusing words – part 45

ADDICT / EDICT

The children were in danger of picking up needles used by crack .

The City Council issued an against spitting in the street.

They were shocked to discover that their daughter was a heroin .

Finally he issued an , prohibiting the smoking of tobacco throughout the New Netherlands.

 

ALLERGEN / ALLERGIC

Once a person is sensitized to an or chemical, he or she may develop asthma.

If a child is to one substance, he is likely to be to others.

Avoid things that could make symptoms worse, such as air pollution and .

Unless you're completely to superhero movies, you need to go and see this film.

 

AXIOM / MAXIM

Therefore, ethical action is equated with following rules, principles, laws, , and codes.

It is a widely held that governments should not negotiate with terrorists.

Euclid's form the foundation of his system of geometry.

Perhaps, the gist of it all could be summed up in the old that truth is stranger than fiction.

 

BEAU / BOW

Since your date is busy with my date, how about dancing with your old ?

He expects me to down to him and do everything he tells me.

He is wearing a suit and a tie to the feast.

I have old love letters from my old , wrapped up in ribbons, sheltered in shoeboxes.

The idea that we should and scrape to such a family is obscene.

 

BORDER / BOARDER

He was a , a lodger for the greater part of his life in the house of a wealthy English merchant.

Illegal immigrants are sent back across the if they are caught.

Close friendships between and day boys was rare; both factions preferred their own.

The dress was white with a delicate lace .

 

BROWS / BROWSE

African rhinos tend to feed low to the ground whereas Asian rhinos usually on leaves.

For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.

He had a strong forehead and heavy that made him look like he was brooding.

I don't like going into clothes shops where they don't leave you in peace to .

You would find it much quicker and easier to and download and so on if you had a broadband connection.

 

CAUGHT / COURT

He doesn't like to be without any biscuits in the house.

That is precisely the issue that has been raised by the National Party in its attempt to try to votes.

We the overnight flight from LA and got to New York at five this morning.

The police the thief which is why he was in .

If the virus is in time, most patients can be successfully treated.

They were penalized for having too many players on the .

 

CLEANLINESS / CLEANNESS

His habits of personal hygiene and were learned in the army.

The performance showed all the technical exactitude and of tone that earlier music demands.

The , tidiness, and manageability of city life kept surprising her.

The restaurant's kitchen is regularly inspected for .

 

CONCLUSIVE / DECISIVE

Her attorneys claim there is no evidence that any murders took place.

The election campaign has now entered its final, phase.

I am not convinced that it is possible to provide a argument to show that paternalism is never in principle justified in any such case.

This defeat puts them out of contention for this year's championship finals.

He should give way to a younger, more leader.

 

CORPSE / CORPS

Military academies produce leaders in all branches of the officer .

Most of the were badly burned, making identification almost impossible.

The country was accordingly divided into defence zones, each assigned to an army .

The had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia.