HERE IS A LIST OF MINIMAL PAIRS AND OTHER SIMILAR - LOOKING WORDS. PRONOUNCE THEM CORRECTLY WITH THE HELP OF YOUR TEACHER. MAKE SENTENCES OF YOUR OWN TO DISTINGUISH THEM. MEANINGS OF SOME DIFFICULT WORDS ARE GIVEN WITHIN BRACKETS.
| Accept - receive | Expect - not including |
| Access - approach | Excess - too much |
| Adapt - to make fit | Adopt - to accept |
| Acceed - to yield | Exceed - to go beyond |
| Accessary - on who helps | Accessory - Additional |
| Adverse - unfavourable | Averse - disinclined to |
| Advise - verb | Advice - noun |
| Affection - love | Affectation - artificial manners |
| Affect - influence | Effect - accomplish |
| Allusion - indirect reference | illusion - unreal image |
| Allude - refer to | elude - escape |
| Amend - alter in order ot improve | emend - remove the errors |
| Amiable - good natured | Unanimous - of one mind |
| Apposite - suitable | Opposite - contrary to |
| Apprise - inform | Appraise - evaluate |
| Ardent - eager | Arduous - difficult |
| Artist - painter, sculotor etc. | Artiste - one who performs an art singer, dancer etc. |
| Artistic - beautiful | Artful - cunning |
| Biannual - half-yearly | Biennial - once in two years |
| Casual - due to chance | Causal - of a cause |
| Cemetery - a burial place | Symmetry - hormony |
| Charted - mapped | Chartered - hired by contact |
| Collision - violent hitting | Collusion - secret agreement for a wrong purpose |
| Clemch - tight grip | Clinch - settle a deal |
| Climatic - of a climate | Climactic - of a climax |
| Coach - a four-wheeled carriage | Couch - bed |
| Collaborate - work in partnership | Corroborate - confirm something |
| Coma - unnatural deep sleep | Comma - (,) |
| Contagious - spreading by contact | Contiguous - adjoining |
| Corporal - of the body | Corporeal - as opposed to the spirit |
| Corps - military force | corpse - dead body |
| Council - a consulting body | Counsel - advice |
| Confirm - establish firmly | Conform - comply with |
| Crumble - break to pieces | Crumple - crush into wrinkles |
| Dairy - milk and other milk and other milk products | Diary - notebook of record |
| Decease - death | Disease - illness |
| Diseased - sickly | Deceased - dead |
| Defer - postpone | Differ - be distinct from |
| Deference - respect | Difference - dissimilarity |
| Descent - climbing downwards | Decent - courteous |
| Defy - challenge | Deify - make a god of worship |
| Despricate - disapprove | Depreciate - Become less in value |
| Disburse - pay out money | Disperse - drive away |
| Draught/Draft - rough outline of any writing | Drought/Draut - want of rain |
| Elicit - draw out | Illicit - illegal |
| Emigrant - a person who leaves his country | Immigrant - a person who comes into a country |
| Eminent - famous | Imminent - likely to happen soon |
| Enervate - to weaken | Innervate - to stimulate |
| Ennumerable - that can be counted | Innumerable - that cannot be counted |
| Exorcise - drive away an evil spirit | Exercise - practice |
| Exhausted - tired | Exhaustive - thorough |
| Facility - skill | Felicity - great happiness |
| Facilitate - make easy | Felicitate - congratulate |
| Goal - jail | Goal - aim |
| Ghostly - of a ghoat | Ghastly - horrible |
| Heaven - a place of god | Haven - a place of safety |
| Humiliation - beign put to shame | Humility - modesty |
| Hypercritical - over crittical | Hypocrittical - relating to hypocrisy, flase |
| Idle - not active | Ideal - perfect, the highest of its kind |
| Imaginary - unreal | Imaginative - full of imagination |
| Immoral - wicked | Amoral - not related ot morals |
| Industrial - of an industry dealing with manufacture | Industrious - hard working |
| Ingenious - skilful, clever | Ingenuous - frank, simple |
| Licence - noun | License - verb |
| Moment - time | Movement - act of moving |
| Moan - make a low sound of pain | Mourn - regret the death of |
| Ordinance - law or order | Ordance - the department dealing with military supplies |
| Occident - the west | Accident - a mishap |
| Petrol - a fuel | Patrol - keep watch my moving around |
| Prosecute - take legal action on | Persecute - punish un justly |
| Potable - fit to drink | Portable - able to carry about |
| Precede - go before | Proceed - continue to advance |
| Precedent - a previous case take as an example | President - the head or chairman |
| Quiet - calm | Quite - completely |
| Refuge - sheltter from danger | Refuse - waste material |
| Septic - infected and full of pus | Sceptic - one who doubts in |
| Spacious - roomy | Specious - showy but deceptive |
| Sever - cut | Severe - serious |
| Solitude - loneliness | Solicitude - anxiety |
| Succession - the coming of one thing after another | Secession - withdrawing, splitting away |
| Temporal - worldly | Temporary - not permanent |
| Thrash - beat with a whip | Thresh - beat the grain out |
| Tycoon - a wealthy, powerful industrialist | Typhoon - aviolent hurricane |
| Urban - of a city | Urbane - refined, polished |
| Venal - dishonest | Venial - small, pardonable |
| Vocation - a person’s regular occupation | Avocation - a secondary occupation pursued for pleasure |
| Wreath - a garland of flowers | Wreathe - cover or encircle |
| Wreck - ruin | Wreak - give expression to, avenge |
Abbreviation An abbreviation is a short form of a word or expression. Abbreviations are used for words used frequently.