All of these words will erode your credibility if used inappropriately. It would be good to check the dictionary for the meanings of these words.
activate/actuate
admission/admittance
adverse/averse
advice/advise
affect/effect
allude/elude
alternate/alternative
ambiguous/ambivalent
appraise/apprise
arrant/errant
assign/attribute
assume/presume
attain/obtain
bail/bale
baited/bated
blatant/flagrant
bloc/block
born/borne
cache/cachet
carat/caret/carrot
cereal/serial
charted/chartered
cite/sight/site
complacent/complaisant
complement/compliment
compose/comprise
constant/continual/continuous/incessant
criticise/critique
cue/queue
decent/descent/dissent
decide/determine
delegate/relegate
deprecate/depreciate
desert/dessert
deserve/merit
diffuse, infuse, suffuse
discreet/discrete
discrepancy/disparity
disinterested/uninterested
dual/duel
effective/effectual/efficacious/efficient
elegy/eulogy
eminent/imminent/immanent
emulate/imitate
expedient/expeditious
extant/extinct
faint/feint
fandango/farrago/fiasco
faze/phase
fictional/fictitious
flare/flair
flaunt/flout
flaw/floor
flounder/founder
formally/formerly
font/fount
forbear/forebear
forego/forgo
foreword/forward
hear/here
historic/historical
hoard/horde
home in/hone
imply/infer
incidence/incident
insidious/invidious
instance/instant
invaluable/valuable
lead/led
leant/lent
lightening/lightning
literally/figuratively
luxuriant/luxurious
magnate/magnet
manner/manor
meat/meet/mete
militate/mitigate
mnemonic/pneumonic
moorish/moreish
oral/verbal
pair/pare
palatable/palpable
palate/palette/pallet/pellet
paramount/tantamount
peace/piece peak/peek/ /pique
pore/pour
practicable/practical
precede/proceed
principal/principle
prise/prize
rack/wrack
raise/raze
rap/wrap
regime/regimen
reign/rein
régime/regimen
reluctant/reticent
riffle/rifle
scupper/scuttle
sewage/sewerage
simple/simplistic
sort/sought
sole/soul
sort/sought
spasmodically/sporadically
specious/spurious
stationary/stationery
straightened/straitened
strategic/tactical
substantial/substantive
tack/tact
throe/throw
tended/tendered
tenant/tenet
vain/vein
want/wont
while/wile
wreak [havoc]/wreck
activate/actuate
admission/admittance
adverse/averse
advice/advise
affect/effect
allude/elude
alternate/alternative
ambiguous/ambivalent
appraise/apprise
arrant/errant
assign/attribute
assume/presume
attain/obtain
bail/bale
baited/bated
blatant/flagrant
bloc/block
born/borne
cache/cachet
carat/caret/carrot
cereal/serial
charted/chartered
cite/sight/site
complacent/complaisant
complement/compliment
compose/comprise
constant/continual/continuous/incessant
criticise/critique
cue/queue
decent/descent/dissent
decide/determine
delegate/relegate
deprecate/depreciate
desert/dessert
deserve/merit
diffuse, infuse, suffuse
discreet/discrete
discrepancy/disparity
disinterested/uninterested
dual/duel
effective/effectual/efficacious/efficient
elegy/eulogy
eminent/imminent/immanent
emulate/imitate
expedient/expeditious
extant/extinct
faint/feint
fandango/farrago/fiasco
faze/phase
fictional/fictitious
flare/flair
flaunt/flout
flaw/floor
flounder/founder
formally/formerly
font/fount
forbear/forebear
forego/forgo
foreword/forward
hear/here
historic/historical
hoard/horde
home in/hone
imply/infer
incidence/incident
insidious/invidious
instance/instant
invaluable/valuable
lead/led
leant/lent
lightening/lightning
literally/figuratively
luxuriant/luxurious
magnate/magnet
manner/manor
meat/meet/mete
militate/mitigate
mnemonic/pneumonic
moorish/moreish
oral/verbal
pair/pare
palatable/palpable
palate/palette/pallet/pellet
paramount/tantamount
peace/piece peak/peek/ /pique
pore/pour
practicable/practical
precede/proceed
principal/principle
prise/prize
rack/wrack
raise/raze
rap/wrap
regime/regimen
reign/rein
régime/regimen
reluctant/reticent
riffle/rifle
scupper/scuttle
sewage/sewerage
simple/simplistic
sort/sought
sole/soul
sort/sought
spasmodically/sporadically
specious/spurious
stationary/stationery
straightened/straitened
strategic/tactical
substantial/substantive
tack/tact
throe/throw
tended/tendered
tenant/tenet
vain/vein
want/wont
while/wile
wreak [havoc]/wreck
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