MTIS: 2016

Athletics [noun], Athlete, Athletic [adjective: a tall athletic looking man], Gymnastics [noun], Gymnastic [adjective: a gymnastic display]
Amends [Always plural]
Absence
Accommodate
Achieve
Acquire
Across
Apparent
Awe, Awful, Awesome, Woeful
Accept, Except
Adverse, Averse (Strongly disliking; opposed)
Advice, Advise
Affect, Effect
Aisle (A passage between rows of seats), Isle (An island)
All together (all in one place, all at once), Altogether (Completely; on the whole)
Altar (A sacred table in a church), Alter
Amoral (Not concerned with right or wrong)
Appraise, Apprise
Assent (Agreement, approval), Ascent (the action of rising or climbing up)
Aural (Relating to the ears or hearing), Oral (Relating to the mouth; spoken)
Astronaut
Asterisk
Auditorium
Adjure, conjurer
Addict, Edict
Boredom
Benefit
Benign
Benefactor
Benevolent
Believe
Breathe
Brilliant
Balmy (Pleasantly warm)
Barmy (Foolish, crazy)
Bare, Bear
Bated (In phrase 'with bated breath', i.e. In great suspense)
Baited (With bait attached or inserted)
Bazaar (A middle eastern market), Bizarre (Strange) [‘a bizarre situation’ / ‘his behaviour became more and more bizarre’]
Berth (A bunk in a ship, train, etc.)
Birth (The emergence of a baby from the womb)
Born (having started life)
Borne (Carried)
Bough (A branch of a tree)
Bow (To bend the head; the front of a ship)
Breach (To break through, or break a rule; a gap)
Breech (The back part of a gun barrel)
Broach (To raise a subject for discussion)
Brooch (A piece of jewellery)
Bourse
Column
Courteous [kɜː(r)tiəs]
Clothes [Always plural]
Calendar
Careful
Category
Ceiling
Cemetery [semətri]
Convenience
Conveyance [kənˈveɪəns]
Canvas (A type of strong cloth)
Canvass (To seek people’s votes)
Censure (To criticize strongly)
Censor (To ban parts of a book or film; a person who does this)
Cereal (A grass producing an edible grain; a breakfast food made from grains)
Chord (A group of musical notes)
Cord (A length of string; a cord-like body part)
Climactic (Forming a climax), Climatic (Relating to climate)
Coarse (Rough)
Course (A direction; a school subject; part of a meal)
Complacent (Smug and self-satisfied)
Complaisant (Willing to please)
Complement (To add to so as to improve; an addition that improves something)
Compliment (To praise or express approval; an admiring remark)
Council (A group of people who manage or advise)
Counsel (Advice; to advise)
Cue (A signal for action; a wooden rod)
Queue (A line of people or vehicles)
Curb (To keep something in check; a control or limit), Kerb (the stone edge of a pavement)
Current (Happening now; a flow of water, air, or electricity), Currant (A dried grape)
Conducive
Deduce
Direct, Director [dəˈrektə(r) / daɪˈrektə(r)]
Data, datum (deɪtʌm, singular)
Dilemma [dɪˈlemə: a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision]
Discipline
Definite
Defuse (To make a situation less tense), Diffuse (To spread over a wide area)
Desert (dezə(r)t: A waterless, empty area; to abandon someone), Dessert (dɪˈzɜː(r)t: The sweet course of a meal)
Discreet (Careful not to attract attention)
Discrete (Separate and distinct)
Disinterested (Impartial), Uninterested (Not interested)
Drought (draʊt), Draught (drɑːft: A current of air)
Draft (A first version of a piece of writing)
Draw (An even score at the end of a game), Drawer (A sliding storage compartment)
Dual (Having two parts), Duel (A fight or contest between two people)
Doldrums
Decisive, Divisive
Doctrine [dɒktrɪn]
Desperate
Exaggerate
Excellent
Except
Exercise
Existence
Expect
Elicit (To draw out a reply or reaction), Illicit (Not allowed by law or rules)
Ensure (To make certain that something will happen)
Envelop (To cover or surround), Envelope (A paper container for a letter)
Exercise (Physical activity; to do physical activity)
Exorcise (To drive out an evil spirit)
Ensure, Insure (To provide compensation if a person dies or property is damaged) Empathy, pathetic, apathy, pathos, antipathy
Evacuate, vacate, vacancy, vacuous
Envisage
Eminence
Folk [Always plural]
Fascinating
Four, Fourteen, Forty
Finance, Financial
Fawn (A young deer; light brown), Faun (A mythical being, part man, part goat)
Flaunt (To display ostentatiously)
Flout (To disregard a rule)
Flounder (To move clumsily; to have difficulty doing something)
Founder (To fail)
Forbear (To refrain), Forebear (An ancestor)
Forward (Onwards, ahead), Foreword (An introduction to a book)
Freeze (To turn to ice), Frieze (A decoration along a wall)
Fuss
Fanciful
Glasses [Always plural]
Grateful
Guarantee
Guidance
Grisly (Gruesome, revolting), Grizzly (A type of bear)
Headquarters [Always plural]
Happiness
Heroes
Humorous
Hymn
Hoard (A store), Horde (A large crowd of people)
Imply (To suggest indirectly)
Index [countable], indices [a plural of index]
Infer (To draw a conclusion)
Immoral (Not following accepted moral standards)
Identity imaginary
Imitation
Immediately
Incidentally
Independent
intelligent
Interesting
Interfere
Interpretation
Interruption
Invitation
Irrelevant
Irritable
Island
Jewel, Jewellery
Jealous
Judge, Judgment, Adjudged
Loath (Reluctant, unwilling), Loathe (To hate)
Loose (To unfasten; to set free), Lose (To be deprived of; to be unable to find)
Laboratory
Loggerheads [Always plural]
Lesson
Lying
Laboratory
Length
Lesson library
License
Loneliness
Losing
Lucid, Translucent, illuminate, elucidate
Manners [plural: You can teach someone manners, not a manner]
Meter (A measuring device), Metre (A metric unit; rhythm in verse)
Mitigate (To make less severe), Militate (To be a powerful factor against)
Mathematics
Medicine
Miniature
Minute
Mysterious
Marriage
Mathematics
Medicine
Miniature
Minute mysterious
Millennium
Maintain, Maintenance
Millionaire
Manicure, pedicure
Mannequin
Necessary
Narcissism, narcissist, narcissistic: a narcissistic personality disorder
Noticeable
Naturally
Necessary
Neighbor
Neither noticeable
Occasion
Occurred
Official
Often
Omission
Operate
Optimism
Original
Ought paid
Occasion
Occurred
Omission
Operate
Optimism
Original
Ought paid
Psychology, Psychiatrics, Psychiatric [adjective: psychiatric nursing/disorders]
Palate (The roof of the mouth), Palette (A board for mixing colours)
Pedal (A foot-operated lever), Peddle (To sell goods)
Pole (A long, slender piece of wood), Poll (Voting in an election)
Pour (To flow or cause to flow), Pore (A tiny opening; to study something closely)
Practice (The use of an idea or method; the work or business of a doctor, dentist, etc.), Practise (To do something repeatedly to gain skill; to do something regularly)
Prescribe (To authorize use of medicine; to order authoritatively), Proscribe (To officially forbid something)
Principal (Most important; the head of a school), Principle (A fundamental rule or belief)
Parallel
Particularly
Peculiar
Perceive
Permanent
Persevere
Personally
Persuade
Picture
Piece
Planning
Pleasant
Political
Possess
Possible
Practical
Prefer
Prejudice
Privilege
Probably
Professional
Promise
Parallel
Particularly
Peculiar
Perceive
Perform
Permanent
Persevere
Possess
Prefer
Prejudice
Privilege
Promise
Psychology
Pseudonym
Plagiarist
Parity
Quite [1. Fairly but not very: I was feeling quite tired after our walk. 2. Completely: Are you quite sure you know what to do?. 3. Very: They have achieved something quite extraordinary.], Quiet, Quit
Quantity
Quarter
Quake
Quack
Questionnaire
Receive
Retrieve
Receive
Revision
Repeat, Repetition
Restaurant
Rhythm
Ridiculous
Realize
Recommend
Reference
Religious
Resent
Scissors [Always plural]
Species [no singular]
Social, Sociology [səʊʃiˈɒlədʒi]
Sceptic (A person inclined to doubt), Septic (Infected with bacteria)
Sight (The ability to see), Site (A location)
Stationary (Not moving), Stationery (Writing materials)
Storey (A level of a building), Story (A tale or account)
Secretary
Separate
Soldier
sacrifice
safety
secretary
separate
similar
sincerely
Sentient
Serenity
Titillate (To arouse interest), Titivate (To make more attractive)
Tortuous (Full of twists; complex), Torturous (Full of pain or suffering)
Temperature
Temporary
Thorough, through
True, Truly
Twelfth
Till, Until
Thanks [Always plural]
Trousers [Always plural] Terrain, territory, extraterrestrial, terrace
Weird
Welcome
Woeful
Weather, WhetherWreath (A ring-shaped arrangement of flowers etc.), Wreathe (To surround or encircle)
Who and whom: Who and whom perform two roles in English: they act as relative pronouns and interrogative pronouns. The basic grammatical rules which govern who and whom are simple to follow: you use who as the subject of a verb and you use whom as the object of a verb or a preposition. Wednesday
Yolk (The yellow center of an egg), Yoke (A wooden crosspiece for harnessing a pair of oxen)

Some people are able to / can walk on their hands.
I’m unable to / can’t understand what she wants.
Can you knit? Do you know who to knit?
One day scientist will be able to find a cure for cancer.
What have you been able to find out?
I might be able to help you.
He can’t be understood.
Don’t go out now — we’re about to have lunch.
I was about to go to bed when the telephone rang.
I was about to pay 100 dollars for that dress.
The water came up above/over the knees.
Can you see the helicopter above/over the palace?
We’ve got a little house above the lake.
There is cloud over the South of England.
He put on a coat over his pyjamas.
The plane was flying over/across Denmark.
Electricity cables stretch over/across the fields.
The temperature is three degrees above zero.
The summit of Everest is about 8,000 metres above sea level.
She’s well above average in intelligence.
You have to be over 18 to avail the national ID.
The police said he was driving at over 110 mph.
There were over 100,000 people at the festival.
The above rules and regulations apply to all students.
For prices and delivery charges, see above.
There are cheap flights at weekends.
I agreed to meet them here.
According to Harry, it’s a good film.
The train gets in at 8.27, according to the timetable.
According to Jon, her friend is brilliant. (if true)
In my opinion, Jon’s friend is an idiot. (not according to me)
His village is just across/over the border (see also along)
See if he can jump across/over the stream.
Why are you climbing over the wall?
He walked right across the desert. (on/to other side of a flat area or surface)
It took him two hours to row across the lake. (on/to other side of a flat area or surface)
I’m going over to John’s. (short journey)
Shall we drive over and see your mother?
We walked across the ice.
I walked through the wood.
We drove across the desert.
We drove through several towns.
It’s over 100 kilos. Let me look. Yes, the actual weight is 108 kilos.
I’ve got a new job. Actually, they have made me sales manager.
It takes me an hour to drive to work, although the actual distance is only 20 miles.
She was so angry that actually tore up the letter.
The book says she died aged 47, but her actual age was 43.
In 2010 the population of Canada was higher than it is now.
He’s going out with a rich businesswoman.
That dress is new, isn’t it?
My elder sister is a pilot. She is three years older than me.
He is one of my old friends. (referring to relationships that have lasted for long)
He’s is a mere child.
I’ve lost a mere two pounds.
Her comments are mere opinion, not fact.
It’s sheer madness
Mark succeeded through sheer hard work.
The journey to work every day was sheer hell.
The baby’s asleep.
Are you asleep yet?
The children are fast asleep in their rooms.
I groped for the phone, still half asleep.
She was groping around in her bag for her keys.
I groped my way to the door.
She was so tired she fell asleep sitting in her chair.
The ship’s still afloat.
We managed to get the boat afloat again.
£1 million is needed to keep the institution afloat.
Nurses take care of sick people.
I’ll get the car ready. [Verb+object+adjective]
Do I make you happy?
Let’s paint the kitchen yellow.
Send all the tickets available.
It’s the only solution possible/possible solution.
Snowden’s a proper mountain, not a hill.
After two days crossing the foothills, they reached the mountain proper.
We’re looking for people skilled in design.
We’re looking for people who are skilled in design.
Have you read anything interesting lately?
Let’s go somewhere quiet.
I’ve as good a voice as you.
She’s too polite a person to refuse.
How good a pianist is he?
I couldn’t afford that big a car.
It was so warm a day that I could hardly work.
The man was too kind to refuse.

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