Friday
- Prosperity
- Subterfuge
- Event
- Observe
- Portion
- Destroy
Saturday
- Talkative
- Indolent
- Profit
- Volunteer
- Cordial
- Enormous
There are a number of nouns very similar in form, yet different in meaning, which we very often use incorrectly.
Cross out in these sentences the incorrect word. Look them up in the dictionary and be sure of the exact meaning:
- Roger's essay—assay won him praise.
- The assay—essay indicated the quantity of gold in the metal.
- The completion—completeness of the course entitled me to a Diploma.
- The completion—completeness of the arrangements fills us with hope of success.
- Confidants—confidence often betray us.
- The business world is built upon confidants—confidence.
- The conscience—consciousness of a religious person is very sensitive.
- The class struggle develops class conscience—consciousness.
- The strikers listened to unwise counsel—council.
- The council—counsel refused the franchise.
- You knew he was a cultured—cultivated man, the moment you met him.
- It is a highly cultured—cultivated plant.
- I asked her for the recipe—receipt for making cake.
- He gave her a receipt—recipe for the money.
- Emigration—-immigration has reduced the population of Servia.
- Emigration—immigration is flooding the United States with cheap labor.
- Edison's discovery—invention of the storage battery was a momentous event.
- The discovery—invention of gold in Alaska attracted the attention of the world.
- The state placed a limitation—limit upon the sale of liquor within certain limits—limitations.
PLAIN ENGLISH
LESSON 29
Dear Comrade: