48 Commonly Confused Words and Meanings in English accept: Receive except: Leave out adverse: unfavourable or harmful adverse: strongly disliking or opposed to advice: Guidance or recommendations advise: To offer suggestions about best affect: Influence effect: Result allowed: Permitted aloud: Clearly heard allude; Make indirect reference elude; Escape from something ate: Past tense of eat: Eight The number aural: Relating to ears or hearing oral: Relates to the mouth or spoken word bare: Naked or to uncover bear: To carry or put up with something born: having started a life borne: carried bough: Branch of a tree bow: front of