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 a / an

 able

 about

 not about to

 above

 access

 

 accompany

 acquiesce in / acquiesce to

 act / action

 admission / admittance

 adopted / adoptive

 advance / advancement

 adverse / averse

 advise

 affect / effect

 affinity

 affirmative

 agenda

 aggravate

 alibi

 all that

 all in negative sentences

 alleged

 all right / alright

 allude / allusion / refer / reference

 alongside / alongside of

 alternative / two or more alternatives

 alternative used as an adjective

 although / though

 altogether / all together

 anticipate

 unanticipated

 anxious

 apparent

 arrant / errant

 assure / ensure / insure

 awhile / a while

 backward / backwards

 bad / badly

 beside / besides

 better and best

 between and among

 bimonthly / biweekly / semimonthly / semiweekly

 boast

 born / borne

 both

 bring and take

 capital / capitol

 careen / career

 center

 certain

 compare to / compare with

 complement / compliment

 compose / comprise

 contact

 continual / continuous

 continuance / continuation

 convince / persuade

 could care less / couldn’t care less

 definite / definitive

 deprecate / depreciate

 different from / different than

 discreet / discrete

 distinct / distinctive

 dive

 doubt and doubtful with that, whether, or if

 drunk / drunken

 due to

 elder / eldest

 elicit / illicit  

 equable / equitable

 equal

 escape

 everyplace / anyplace / someplace / no place

 exceptionable / exceptional

 fact

 farther / further

 fewer / less

 finalize

 firstly

 flammable / inflammable

 follow

 foot

 forceful / forcible / forced

 former / latter

 fulsome

 go

 good / well

 got / gotten

 graduate

 grow

 hang

 headquarter

 healthy / healthful

 historic / historical

 if or whether

 important

 impracticable / impractical

 in behalf of / on behalf of

 incredible / incredulous

 individual

 infrastructure

 intense / intensive

 interface

 ironic

 its / it’s

 lack

 late

 lay / lie

 leave / let

 lifestyle

 ize

Suffix

 -ability

 -able

 -acea

 -ad

 -ado

 -age

 -aholic

 -algia

 -archy

 -aster

 a (1)

 a (2)

 a capella

 a priori

 A&P