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Frequently Misspelled Words - by LaRae M. Donnellan, Meg G. Ashman, and Florita S. Montgomery, July 1998 (Source: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/SITE/misspell.html)

A
abscess
absence
accommodation
acknowledgment
acquaintance
acquiesce
acquire
adjacent aggressive
aging
all right
already
amateur
analogous
analysis
analyze answer
apparatus
argument
assistance
attendance
autumn
auxiliary

B
bankruptcy
basically believe
benefited boundary

C
calendar
campaign
canceled
cancellation
candor
census
chaise longue changeable
coincidence
collateral
colossal
concede
conceive
connoisseur conscience
conscientious
conscious
consensus
courtesy

D
debtor
deductible
de-emphasize
defendant
deficit definite
dependent
descendant
desperately
develop dilemma
dissatisfied
dissimilar
dossier

E
ecstasy
embarrass
entrepreneur
enumerate
erroneous escrow
exaggerate
exceed
exhaustible
exhilarate exonerate
exorbitant
eyeing

F
facsimile
fascinating
fiery financier
fluorescent
foresee forfeit
forty
fourteen

G
gauge
glamorous
glamour grammar
grateful
grievous gruesome
guarantee
guardian

H
handkerchief
harass
harassment
height hemorrhage
heterogeneous
hindrance
hors d'oeuvre hygiene
hypocrisy

I
impasse
inasmuch as
incidentally
indict indispensable
innocuous
innuendo
inoculate interim
irrelevant
itinerary

J
jeopardy judgment

K
khaki

L
labeled
laboratory
league leisure
liable
liaison license
lien
liquefy

M
maintenance
maneuver
mediocre
memento mileage
milieu
millennium
miniature minuscule
miscellaneous
mischievous
misspell

N
necessary
neighbor niece
ninety noticeable
nuclear

O
obsolescent
offense omelet
omission

P
pamphlet
panicky
paradigm
parallel
pastime
patience
permissible
perseverance
persistent
persuade
phenomenal phony
picnicking
plagiarism
potato
potatoes
practically
preceding
preferable
prerogative
presumptuous
pretense privilege
procedure
proceed
programmed
pronunciation
protégé
pseudonym
psychiatric
publicly
pursue

Q
questionnaire queue

R
rarefy
receipt
receive
recommend
reinforce
relevant rendezvous
rescind
resistance
restaurant
résumé
rhapsody rhetorical
rhyme
rhythm
rhythmic

S
sacrilegious
salable
satellite
schedule
scissors
seize
separate
siege sieve
sincerely
skeptic
skillful
souvenir
sponsor
strength
subtlety subtly
succeed
supersede
surprise
surreptitious
surveillance

T
tariff
taxiing
technique
temperament tempt
theater
theory
thoroughly threshold
totaled
tragedy
traveler

U
unique
unmanageable unwieldy
usage

V
vaccinate
vacuum vinyl
volume

W
weird
whether
wholly wield
withhold
woeful woolly

Y
yield

1"Grammar and Punctuation for Editors and Writers," LaRae M. Donnellan, University of Tennessee; Meg G. Ashman, University of Vermont; and Florita S. Montgomery, West Virginia University. Agricultural Communicators in Education Annual Conference, July 16, 1998, Asilomar, California.

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