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The words rich and wealthy are actually synonyms. Both are often used when you are describing a person or place that has a lot of money and possessions. However, in some cases, only rich is possible. She is a very rich/wealthy woman. He was fabulously rich / wealthy . This is a rich / wealthy area. We always use rich in some fixed expressions such as stinking rich and filthy rich . They must be stinking/filthy rich. They must be stinking/filthy wealthy.

You can use the verbs close and shut to mean the same thing, but shut is less formal than close. Shut is an irregular verb. Its past tense and past participle forms are the same as the present tense. to shut – he shuts – he shut – he has shut

The words altar and alter often confuse students because they are homophones.T hese words have the same pronunciation even though they are different parts of speech. Altar (with an A) is a noun. Alter (with an E) is a verb.

Words that are pronounced the same often confuse the learners of English. These words are homophones. Homophones sound the same but have different meanings, origins or spellings. Fair and fare are two commonly confused words in English because they are homophones. Fair and fare are both pronounced as /feə(r) / .

Price and prize are t wo commonly confused words in English. Although they look and sound very similar, their meanings are very different. Price and prize are both nouns. Price is pronounced with an 'S' sound, while  prize is pronounced with a 'Z' sound. Price /prais/ and prize /praiz/.

For many learners of English, borrow and lend are two confusing verbs. Both words have a difference in meaning. If you give something to someone, you lend it; if you take and use something from someone, you borrow it.

Although the words accept and except sound very similar, they’re quite different in meaning. Accept is a verb. It means to take something offered; to answer yes to an invitation or offer. Except is most commonly used as a preposition.

Envelop   and   envelop e    are  easily  confused  in the English language . They sound similar  but the ir  meaning s  are different .  One is a verb and the other is a noun .  T hese   two  words are never interchangeable.   

What is the difference between 'amount of', 'quantity of' and 'number of'?

Lots of people often get  confused  about   there , their and they're . These three words  sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.   

These three words, Expect , Hope and Wait , are often confusing for learners of English. But they all have different meanings.  

The verbs  emigrate ,  with  an e ,  and  immigrate , with an  i , are often confused.  These two words,  emigrate and immigrate, have the general meaning 'to move from one country to another'.  They also sound very similar, but  the re   is a difference in meaning between these two verbs.  

A lot of  people often get confused about add and ad . These two words have same pronunciations, but they are spelled differently (add with two D's) and  have different meanings.   

Lots of people are mixing up device and devise . These   t wo words     look similar , but they have different  pronunciations and   meanings.