Word usage 4Cs Review Part 2

• Assent: Consent
• adherents: Followers
• allot: To assign or distribute
• Appraise and apprise:

  1. Appraise: to set a value on
  2. Apprise: to inform
• breadth: Distance from side to side of something, not width
• Calender and Colander:

  1. Calender: a machine used in fishing paper
  2. Colander: a strainer
• canvass: to solicit
• capital, capitol, and Capitol:

  1. Capitol: the building where the US congress meets
  2. capitol: the building where a stage legislative body meet
  3. capital: a principle sum of money, an uppercase letter, or a capital city
• censure: A reprimand (noun) or to criticize (verb)
• Comptroller and controller

  1. comptroller: term used for a financial officer for a government position
  2. controller: term used for a financial officers for a for profit organization
• continual and continuous:

  1. continual: Occurring steadily but with occasional breaks
  2. Continuous: uninterrupted
• Correspondence vs correspondents:

  1. Correspondence: letters
  2. Correspondents: those that write letters
• Denounce vs renounce:

  1. Denounce: To condemn
  2. renounce: to give something up
• Discreet vs discrete:

  1. Discreet: prudent
  2. Discrete: Distinct or separate
• disinterested: unbiased or impartial
• Use different from rather than different than
• eminent, immanent, and emanate:

  1. eminent: Well known or prominent
  2. Immanent: inherent or residing within
  3. Emanate: to originate from or come out of
• equable and equitable:

  1. equable: even or tranquil
  2. Equitable: just or right
• hardy and hearty:

  1. hardy: robust
  2. Hearty: enthusiastic or vigorous
• ingenious and ingenuous:

  1. ingenious: clever
  2. Ingenuous: naive or innocent
• interstate and intrastate:

  1. Interstate: between states
  2. Intrastate: within one state
• Lay and lie:

  1. lay: to place an object
  2. Lie: a falsehood or a past tense of lay
• leach: to draw out or remove
• loath: reluctant
• ordnance: guns
• premier vs premiere:

  1. premier: First in importance
  2. Premiere: First performance
• some one: A person or thing in a group selected for attention
• stanch: to stop the flow of something
• trooper vs trouper:

  1. trooper: a soldier
  2. trouper: one who is emotionally hearty
• veracity: truthfulness
• waive: to give up
• waiver vs waver:

  1. waiver: the giving up of a claim
  2. waver: to hesitate
• warranty vs warrantee:

  1. warranty: a guarantee
  2. Warrantee: a person who received a warranty