1. Vocabulary

2. Cite/Site/Sight Cite – to quote, summon, commend or call. Cite the author in an endnote; Site – location, area, computer website, or to place something in an area You visit a Web site or the site of the crime. Sight – the act of seeing, a view, a glimpse/ observation, to look in a direction. You sight your beloved running toward you in slow motion on the beach (a sight for sore eyes!).

3. Complement/Compliment compliment: nice things said about someone – "She paid me the compliment of admiring the way I shined my shoes.” Complement- matching or completing. – Alice’s love for entertaining and Mike’s love for washing dishes complement each other. – the full number of something needed to make it complete: “My computer has a full complement of video-editing programs.” If it is preceded by “full” the word you want is almost certainly “complement.” Remember, if you’re not making nice to someone, the word is “complement.”

4. Conscience/Conscious Conscience – inner sense of right and wrong. – Your conscience makes you feel guilty when you do bad things. Conscious – aware, having mental faculties, known. – If you are awake, you are conscious. – Although it is possible to speak of your “conscious mind,” you can’t use “conscious” all by itself to mean “consciousness.”

5. Council/Counsel Council– an assembly, a body of people – I checked with the city council. Counsel– advice, to give advice – I could counsel you not to speak to him anymore.

6. Continually/Continuously Continually means "repeated again and again." – I was continually interrupted by the telephone. Continuously means "uninterrupted." – It rained continuously for forty-eight hours.

7. Coarse/Course Coarse is always an adjective meaning “rough, crude.” – Don’t use that coarse language in here! Course – N. or v. many meanings! Path, track, procedure, mode of conduct, to hunt or chase, etc. ALSO used in many idioms – Of course, we do charge a fee for that.

8. Disburse/Disperse Disburse – to distribute, give out – You disburse money by taking it out of your purse (French “bourse”) and distributing it. Disperse – scatter, drive off, dispell – If you refuse to hand out any money, the eager mob of beggars before you may disperse.

9. Eligible/Illegible Eligible – available, qualified, fit or proper – He was quite the eligible bachelor. Illegible not readable, impossible to read, bad handwriting. – I cannot take this paper, your writing is illegible!

10. Eminent/Imminent Eminent - prominent, famous, most important. – The government exercises eminent domain. Imminent – threatening, facing immediate disaster. From Latin minere, meaning “to project or overhang.” – The cave in was imminent, as was the movie premiere.

11. Ensure/Insure Ensure- to secure or guarantee: to make sure or certain: measures to ensure the success of an undertaking. to make secure or safe, as from harm – This letter will ensure you a hearing. Insure – to guarantee against loss or harm, to secure indemnity to or on, in case of loss, damage, or death, to issue or procure an insurance policy on or for. – Check with your agent, they can probably insure you for less.