Pairs of words: Meaning and use.

1.Accept- to approve
Except- to leave out.

2.Access- approach
Excess- going beyond what is usual or proper.

3. Altar- block or table for making sacrifice

Alter- modify , to make different.

4.Amiable- worthy of being loved

Amicable- friendly

5.Act- an enactment of the legislature.

act- to do, to perform

6. Appeal- to apply to higher court against the decision of a lower court.

Repeal- to annul or abolish law.

7. Corps- division of army

Corpse- dead body

8. Corporal- physical
Corporeal-material as opposed to spiritual.

9. Counsel- advice
Council- assembly or any other body either elected or nominated.

10.Differ- to disagree
Defer- to postpone

11. Decent- fine, good looking, mannered

Dissent- disagreement

12. Decree- a verdict of the court

Degree- academic rank.

13. Emigrant- a person who goes to some other country for settling over
there.
Immigrant- is a foreigner who comes in a country for permanent
settlement.
14. Human- belonging to the man-kind
Humane- merciful.

15. Irrelevant- not connected with the subject

Irreverent- disrespectfully

16. Letter- a written message.

Later- comparative degree of the late
Latter- that which is mentioned afterwards.

17.Ordinance- a rule or order

Ordnance- cannons, guns etc.

18. Persecute- to harass

Prosecute-to sue at law

19. Practice- habitual action or performance

Practise –to put in practice,

20. Substitute- to put in place of another

Replace- to put in its place again.

21. Vein- blood vessel

Vain- fruitless.