This group can be divided into three:
1. Words and phrases liable to be used superfluously, unsuitably, or wrongly. Here is a list of words of this sort that you will find in the A.B.C.:
| Course |
|---|
| Deadline |
| Dearth |
| Decimate |
| Deem |
| Definite(ly) |
| Desire |
| Develop |
| Dilemma |
| Distant |
| Donate |
| End |
| Entail |
| Envisage |
| Essential |
| Evacuate |
| Event |
| Eventuate |
| Evince |
| Experience |
| Fact |
| Far |
| Favour |
|---|
| Feasible |
| Feature |
| Following |
| Former |
| Fraction |
| Function (v.) |
| Furthermore |
| Global |
| Got |
| Group |
| Hand (to) |
| Help |
| Hereto |
| Idem |
| If, If & when |
| Implement |
| Inasmuch |
| Incidentally |
| Inclined |
| Inculcate |
| Individual |
| Infers |
|---|
| Inform |
| Information |
| Instance |
| Inst. |
| Involve |
| Item |
| Lack |
| Latter |
| Leading question |
| Liable |
| Likely |
| Limited |
| Liquidate |
| Literally |
| Loan |
| Locate,Location |
| Major |
| Majority |
| Materialise |
| Means |
| Proportion |
|---|
| Proposition |
| Protagonist |
| Provided that |
| Prox. |
| Purport (n.) |
| Purport (v.) |
| Question |
| Re |
| Reaction |
| Realistic |
| Recrudescence |
| Redundant |
| Relatively |
| Rendition |
| Require |
| Respective(ly) |
| Sabotage |
| Same |
| Service (v.) |
| Short supply |
| Special pleading |
| Specific |
|---|
| Stage |
| Standpoint |
| Steps (take) |
| Sterilise |
| Substitute |
| Such |
| Such Time As |
| Sufficient |
| Target |
| Thereto/with |
| Transmit |
| Transpire |
| Ult. |
| Unduly |
| Unilateral |
| Until |
| Utilise |
| Very |
| Viewpoint |
| While |
| Worth (while) |
2. Pairs of words liable to be confused. Each of the following pairs will be found in the A.B.C. under the first word of the pair.
| Adherence/Adhesion |
|---|
| Affect/Effect |
| Alternate/Alternative |
| Autarchy/Autarky |
| Averse/Adverse |
| Compare to/with |
| Comprise/Compose |
| Consequent/Consequential |
| Consist in/of |
|---|
| Continual/Continuous |
| Defective/Deficient |
| Definitive/Definite |
| Dependant/Dependent |
| Deprecate/Depreciate |
| Desiderate/Desideratum |
| Direct/Directly |
| Disassociate/Dissociate |
|---|
| Disinterested/Uninterested |
| Disposal/Disposition |
| e.g./i.e. |
| Enquiry/Inquiry |
| Factitious/Fictitious |
| Forego/Forgo |
| Hard/Hardly |
| Imply/Infer |
|---|
| Less/Fewer |
| Meantime/Meanwhile |
| Practical/Practicable |
| Resort, Resource,Recourse |
| Verbal/Oral |
| Waste/Wastage |
3. Certain present-day trends in the behaviour of words
The English vocabulary is constantly changing: words acquire new meanings; new words are invented; old ones disappear. The following four articles deal with current tendencies of this sort: