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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Depto. de Letras, Programa de Inglês Disciplina: Língua Inglesa 8A |
Centro de Artes e Comunicação Professor: Dr. João Sedycias Código da Disciplina: LE 627 |
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The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
W o r d C h o i c e
New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints
This section treats usage problems that are inherent to individual words or entail a choice between words. It provides guidance on traditional difficulties such as when to use between instead of among, what the verb decimate means, and whether politics takes a singular or plural verb. It sorts out commonly confused words like founder and flounder or blatant and flagrant. And it assesses new usages, such as the verbs empower and interface, that have some popular appeal but may be seen as trendy or pretentious. Problems involving pronouns and conjunctions are treated under Grammar.
- a / an
- able
- about
- not about to
- above
- access
- accompany
- acquiesce in / acquiesce to
- act / action
- admission / admittance
- adopted / adoptive
- advance / advancement
- adverse / averse
- advise
- affect / effect
- affinity
- affirmative
- agenda
- aggravate
- alibi
- all
- alleged
- all right / alright
- allude / allusion / refer / reference
- alongside / alongside of
- alternative
- although / though
- altogether / all together
- anticipate
- unanticipated
- antidote
- anxious
- apparent
- arrant / errant
- assure / ensure / insure
- auger / augur
- aural / oral
- author
- awhile / a while
- backward / backwards
- bad / badly
- baited / bated
- baleful / baneful
- barbarism / barbarity
- beside / besides
- better
- between
- bimonthly / biweekly / semimonthly / semiweekly
- blatant / flagrant
- boast
- born / borne
- both
- bring
- burgeon
- callous / callus
- capital / capitol
- careen / career
- caring
- celebrant
- center
- certain
- chord / cord
- claustrophobic
- cohort
- commentate
- compare to / compare with
- complacent / complaisant
- complement / compliment
- complete
- compose / comprise
- conflicted
- contact
- contemporary
- continual / continuous
- continuance / continuation
- contrast
- convince / persuade
- could care less / couldn’t care less
- council / counsel / consul
- couple
- craft
- credentialed
- credible / credulous
- crescendo
- criterion
- critique
- czar / tsar
- data
- debut
- deceptively
- decimate
- deduction / induction
- definite / definitive
- denote / connote
- depend
- deprecate / depreciate
- dialogue
- different from / different than
- dilemma
- discomfit / discomfort
- discreet / discrete
- disinterested
- distinct / distinctive
- dive
- doubt / doubtful
- drunk / drunken
- due to
- elder / eldest
- elicit / illicit
- empower
- enormity / enormousness
- enthuse
- epithet
- equable / equitable
- equal
- escape
- everyplace / anyplace / someplace / no place
- exceptionable / exceptional
- fact
- factoid
- farther / further
- faze / phase
- fewer / less
- finalize
- firstly
- flammable / inflammable
- flaunt / flout
- flotsam / jetsam
- follow
- foot
- forceful / forcible / forced
- forego / forgo
- former / latter
- fortuitous / fortunate
- founder / flounder
- -ful
- fulsome
- fun
- gambit
- gauntlet / gantlet
- get
- gift
- go
- got / gotten
- gourmet / gourmand / epicure
- government
- graduate
- graffito / graffiti
- group
- grow
- half
- hang
- harebrained / hairbrained
- headquarter
- headquarters
- healthy / healthful
- help
- historic / historical
- holocaust
- hopefully
- host
- identical
- identify
- if
- impact
- implement
- important
- impracticable / impractical
- in behalf of / on behalf of
- incentivize / incent
- include
- incredible / incredulous
- individual
- infer / imply
- infinite
- Infrastructure
- input
- insignia
- intense / intensive
- interface
- intrigue
- intuit
- ironic
- irregardless
- its / it’s
- -ize
- kind
- knot
- kudos
- lack
- late
- lay / lie
- leave / let
- legend
- liable / apt / likely
- lifestyle
- light
- like
- likely
- lot
- majority
- masterful / masterly
- materialize
- means
- meantime / meanwhile
- media
- methodology
- migrate / emigrate / immigrate
- minimal / minimize
- modem
- momentarily
- moot
- mutual
- myriad
- nauseous / nauseated / nauseating
- no sooner than / no sooner when
- number
- oblivious
- off
- on
- pair
- paradigm
- parallel
- parameter
- pass
- people / persons
- percent
- percentage
- perfect
- periodic
- personality
- peruse
- phenomenon
- plead
- politics
- pore / pour
- possessed
- practicable / practical
- practically
- precipitate / precipitous
- premiere
- prescribe / proscribe
- presently
- principal / principle
- prioritize
- protagonist
- prove
- provided / providing
- quarter
- quote
- rack / wrack
- rather
- regard / respect
- repulse / repel
- research
- responsible
- restive / restless
- sacrilegious
- said
- same
- savings
- seasonal / seasonable
- sensual / sensuous
- series
- service / serve
- set / sit
- shambles
- showcase
- slow
- sneak
- so-called / self-styled
- someday / some day / sometime / some time
- sometime
- sooner than
- specious
- staunch / stanch
- stomp / stamp
- stratum
- suffer
- surveil
- teach
- thusly
- tight / tightly
- till / until
- too
- tortuous / torturous
- toward
- tragedy / tragic
- transpire
- try and
- unaware / unawares
- unexceptionable / unexceptional
- unique
- utilize
- various of
- verbal
- wait on / wait upon
- wake
- want for
- way
- weaned on
- well
- wellness
- -wise
- wish
- world-class
- wreak / wreck
- yet
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