Tham khảo tài liệu 'different vocabulary10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | file C Temp livres commonerrors errors Usually a redundancy. Most of the time plain result will do fine. ENQUIRE INQUIRE These are alternative spellings of the same word. Enquire is perhaps slightly more common in the . but either is acceptable in the . ENTHUSE Enthuse is a handy word and state enthusiastically is not nearly so striking but unfortunately enthuse is not acceptable in the most formal contexts. ENVELOP ENVELOPE To wrap something up in a covering is to envelop it pronounced enVELLup . The specific wrapping you put around a letter is an envelope pronounced variously but with the accent on the first syllable . ENVIOUS JEALOUS Although these are often treated as synonyms there is a difference. You are envious of what others have that you lack. Jealousy on the other hand involves wanting to hold on to what you do have. You can be jealous of your boyfriend s attraction to other women but you re envious of your boyfriend s CD collection. ENVIROMENT ENVIRONMENT The second N in environment is seldom pronounced distinctly so it s not surprising that is often omitted in writing. If you know the related word environs it may help remind you. EPIC EPOCH An epoch is a long period of time like the Jurassic Epoch. It often gets mixed up with epic in the sense of large-scale. Something really big has epic proportions not epoch proportions. EPIGRAM EPIGRAPH EPITAPH EPITHET An epigram is a pithy saying usually humorous. Mark Twain was responsible for many striking mostly cynical epigrams such as Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. Unfortunately he was also responsible for an even more famous one that has been confusing people ever since Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. it s true that the moon keeps one side away from the earth but--if you don t count the faint glow reflected from the earth--it is not any darker than the side that faces us. In fact over time the side facing us
