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Unit 15: Vocabulary and Usage : Words often Confused and Misused

18. Ceiling (under surface or overhead lining of a room): He has beautified the ceiling of his room. Notes
Roof (top covering of a building, tent, bus or car): The children are playing on the roof of their
house.
19. Careful (paying attention to what one does or says): One should be careful to what one does.
Meticulous (showing great attention to detail): He is very meticulous in his choice of words.
Scrupulous (adherence to what one knows to be true, correct or exact etc.): The newly appointed
Chief Justice is quite scrupulous in dispensing justice.
20. Certain (something beyond question or doubt): It is certain that two and two make four.
Inevitable (that cannot be avoided): Death is an inevitable end of all the mortals.
Necessary (which has to be done): Sleep is necessary to healt.
21. Curious (eager to know): He is very curious about his future.
Inquisitive (inquiring into other people’s affairs): He is inquisitive about his neighbour’s income.
22. Charitable (helping the poor): The charitable institutions help the poor and helpless persons.
Benevolent (kind and helpful): He is benevolent towards all the needy people.
Philanthropic (lover of mankind who gives money on large scale): His philanthropic attitude
motivates him to donate large amounts of money for the orphans, widows, disabled and the poor.
Altruistic (unselfish): He is altruistic in serving mankind.
23. Common (belong to, used or done by all or nearly all members of a group or society): In multi-
lingual countries, English is a common language.
Ordinary (usual or customary): She went to the party in ordinary dress.
Vulgar (ordinary but coarse): He delivered a speech in the vulgar tongue.
Familiar (acquainted): I am not very familiar with the modern mathematics.
24. Communicate (pass on news, information, feeling etc.): Often the children are not able to
communicate with their parents.
Impart (pass on a secret or news): I have nothing to impart to you today.
25. Contagious (disease spreading by contact): Small-pox is a contagious disease.
Infectious (disease spreading through bacteria carried in the atmosphere or in water): Typhoid
is an infectious disease.
26. Correct (freedom from error): We learnt the correct pronunciation.
Accurate (careful and exact): His knowledge of phonology is accurate to certain extent.
Right (something, just and true): We should know the difference between right and wrong.
27. Deny (disown or refuse to acknowledge): I denied the charge of having any hand in the M.P.‘s
murder.
Refuse (say ‘no’ to a request or offer): Her refused to help me.
28. Explore (inquire into or examine a country etc. by going through it): The navigators explored
the ocean’s depth for a good knowledge of it.
Discover (find our something that existed before): Columbus discovered America.
Invent (create or design something not existing before): Graham Bell invented ine telephone.
29. Declare (make known clearly or formally): The President of the athletic association declared the
athletic meet open.
Announce (make known for the time): His engagement with Sony is ultimately announced.
Advertise (make known to people by printing notices in newspapers): The manufactures advertise
their goods in the leading newspapers in order to grip the market.
Proclaim (make known publicly by some formal declaration): He proclaimed his nephew his
legal heir.

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