Les étudiants confondent souvent des mots qui se ressemblent (morale/moral), cette liste de mots vous permettra d'en connaître quelques-uns et de ne plus les confondre.
| Anglais | Francais | Prononciation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| accept | to receive | accepter | |
| except | with the exclusion of | à part, excepté, sauf | |
| advice | recommendation (noun) | conseil | |
| advise | to recommend (verb) | conseiller, donner des conseils à | |
| adverse | unfavorable | défavorable, hostile | |
| averse | opposed to | aversion | |
| affect | to influence (verb); emotional response (noun) | avoir un effet sur, affecter | |
| effect | result (noun); to cause (verb) | effet | |
| aisle | space between rows | ||
| isle | island | ||
| allude | to make indirect reference to | ||
| elude | to avoid | ||
| allusion | indirect reference | ||
| illusion | false idea, misleading appearance | ||
| already | by this time | ||
| all ready | fully prepared | ||
| altar | sacred platform or place | ||
| alter | to change | ||
| altogether | thoroughly | ||
| all together | everyone/everything in one place | ||
| a lot | a quantity; many of something | ||
| allot | to divide or portion out | ||
| angel | supernatural being, good person | ||
| angle | shape made by joining 2 straight lines | ||
| are | plural form of "to be" | ||
| our | plural form of "my" | ||
| accent | pronunciation common to a region | ||
| ascent | the act of rising or climbing | ||
| assent | consent, agreement | ||
| assistance | help | ||
| assistants | helpers | ||
| bare | nude, unadorned | ||
| bear | to carry; an animal | ||
| beside | close to; next to | ||
| besides | except for; in addition | ||
| boar | a wild male pig | ||
| bore | to drill a hole through | ||
| board | piece of wood | ||
| bored | uninterested | ||
| born | brought into life | ||
| borne | past participle of "to bear" (carry) | ||
| breath | air taken in (noun) | ||
| breathe | to take in air (verb) | ||
| brake | device for stopping | ||
| break | destroy; make into pieces | ||
| buy | to purchase | ||
| by | next to; through the agency of | ||
| canvas | heavy cloth | ||
| canvass | to take a survey; a survey | ||
| capital | major city | ||
| capitol | government building | ||
| choose | to pick | ||
| chose | past tense of "to choose" | ||
| clothes | garments | ||
| cloths | pieces of fabric | ||
| coarse | rough | ||
| course | path; series of lectures | ||
| complement | something that completes | ||
| compliment | praise, flattery | ||
| conscience | sense of morality | ||
| conscious | awake, aware | ||
| corps | regulated group | ||
| corpse | dead body | ||
| council | governing body | ||
| counsel | advice; to give advice | ||
| dairy | place where milk products are processed | ||
| diary | personal journal | ||
| descent | downward movement | ||
| dissent | disagreement | ||
| dessert | final, sweet course in a meal | ||
| desert | to abandon; dry, sandy area | ||
| device | a plan; a tool or utensil | ||
| devise | to create | ||
| discreet | modest, prudent behavior | ||
| discrete | a separate thing, distinct | ||
| do | a verb indicating performance or execution of a task | ||
| dew | water droplets condensed from air | ||
| due | as a result of | ||
| dominant | commanding, controlling | ||
| dominate | to control | ||
| die | to lose life; one of a pair of dice | ||
| dye | to change or add color | ||
| dyeing | changing or adding color | ||
| dying | losing life | ||
| elicit | to draw out | ||
| illicit | illegal, forbidden | ||
| eminent | prominent | ||
| imminent | about to happen | ||
| envelop | to surround (verb) | ||
| envelope | container for a letter (noun) | ||
| everyday | routine, commonplace, ordinary (adj.) | ||
| every day | each day, succession (adj. + noun) | ||
| fair | light skinned; just, honest; a carnival | ||
| fare | money for transportation; food | ||
| farther | at a greater(measurable) distance | ||
| further | in greater(non-measurable) depth | ||
| formally | conventionally, with ceremony | ||
| formerly | previously | ||
| forth | forward | ||
| fourth | number four in a list | ||
| gorilla | animal in ape family | ||
| guerrilla | soldier specializing in surprise attacks | ||
| hear | to sense sound by ear | ||
| here | in this place | ||
| heard | past tense of "to hear" | ||
| herd | group of animals | ||
| hoard | a hidden fund or supply, a cache | ||
| horde | a large group or crowd, swarm | ||
| hole | opening | ||
| whole | complete; an entire thing | ||
| human | relating to the species homo sapiens | ||
| humane | compassionate | ||
| its | possessive form of "it" | ||
| it's | contraction for "it is" | ||
| knew | past tense of "know" | ||
| new | fresh, not yet old | ||
| know | to comprehend | ||
| no | negative | ||
| later | after a time | ||
| latter | second one of two things | ||
| lead | heavy metal substance; to guide | ||
| led | past tense of "to lead" | ||
| lessen | to decrease | ||
| lesson | something learned and/or taught | ||
| lightning | storm-related electricity | ||
| lightening | making lighter | ||
| loose | unbound, not tightly fastened | ||
| lose | to misplace | ||
| maybe | perhaps (adv.) | ||
| may be | might be (verb) | ||
| meat | animal flesh | ||
| meet | to encounter | ||
| mete | to measure; to distribute | ||
| metal | a hard organic substance | ||
| medal | a flat disk stamped with a design | ||
| mettle | courage, spirit, energy | ||
| miner | a worker in a mine | ||
| minor | underage person (noun); less important (adj.) | ||
| moral | distinguishing right from wrong; lesson of a fable or story | ||
| morale | attitude or outlook usually of a group | ||
| passed | past tense of "to pass" | ||
| past | at a previous time | ||
| patience | putting up with annoyances | ||
| patients | people under medical care | ||
| peace | absence of war | ||
| piece | part of a whole; musical arrangement | ||
| peak | point, pinnacle, maximum | ||
| peek | to peer through or look furtively | ||
| pique | fit of resentment, feeling of wounded vanity | ||
| pedal | the foot lever of a bicycle or car | ||
| petal | a flower segment | ||
| peddle | to sell | ||
| personal | intimate; owned by a person | ||
| personnel | employees | ||
| plain | simple, unadorned | ||
| plane | to shave wood; aircraft (noun) | ||
| precede | to come before | ||
| proceed | to continue | ||
| presence | attendance; being at hand | ||
| presents | gifts | ||
| principal | foremost (adj.); administrator of a school (noun) | ||
| principle | moral conviction, basic truth | ||
| quiet | silent, calm | ||
| quite | very | ||
| rain | water drops falling; to fall like rain | ||
| reign | to rule | ||
| rein | strap to control an animal (noun); to guide or control (verb) | ||
| raise | to lift up | ||
| raze | to tear down | ||
| rational | having reason or understanding | ||
| rationale | principles of opinion, beliefs | ||
| respectfully | with respect | ||
| respectively | in that order | ||
| reverend | title given to clergy; deserving respect | ||
| reverent | worshipful | ||
| right | correct; opposite of left | ||
| rite | ritual or ceremony | ||
| write | to put words on paper | ||
| road | path | ||
| rode | past tense of "to ride" | ||
| scene | place of an action; segment of a play | ||
| seen | viewed; past participle of "to see" | ||
| sense | perception, understanding | ||
| since | measurement of past time; because | ||
| sight | scene, view, picture | ||
| site | place, location | ||
| cite | to document or quote (verb) | ||
| stationary | standing still | ||
| stationery | writing paper | ||
| straight | unbending | ||
| strait | narrow or confining; a waterway | ||
| taught | past tense of "to teach" | ||
| taut | tight | ||
| than | besides | ||
| then | at that time; next | ||
| their | possessive form of "they" | ||
| there | in that place | ||
| they're | contraction for "they are" | ||
| through | finished; into and out of | ||
| threw | past tense of "to throw" | ||
| thorough | complete | ||
| to | toward | ||
| too | also; very (used to show emphasis) | ||
| two | number following one | ||
| track | course, road | ||
| tract | pamphlet; plot of ground | ||
| waist | midsection of the body | ||
| waste | discarded material; to squander | ||
| waive | forgo, renounce | ||
| wave | flutter, move back and forth | ||
| weak | not strong | ||
| week | seven days | ||
| weather | climatic condition | ||
| whether | if | ||
| wether | a neutered male sheep | ||
| where | in which place | ||
| were | past tense of "to be" | ||
| which | one of a group | ||
| witch | female sorcerer | ||
| whose | possessive for "of who" | ||
| who's | contraction for "who is" | ||
| your | possessive for "of you" | ||
| you're | contraction for "you are" | ||
| yore | time long past | ||