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Table 10.6 Noun–Adjective Pairs
Herd/heard Plane/plain
:
Piece/peace Allowed/aloud
Counsel/council Sight/site
Fair/fare Brake/break
Birth/berth Prey/pray
Week/weak Hole/whole
Floor/flour Taste/test
Weak/week/wick Pure/pour/poor
Heir/hair/hare Later/letter/latter
Wonder/Wander Patrol/petrol
Advice/advise Bath/bathe
Leave/live Use/use (n/v)
Quite/quiet Princes/princess
Price/prise Compliment/complement
Lose/loose Medal/meddle
Affect/effect Prophesy/prophecy
Stationary/stationery Dependent/dependant
Licence/license Disease/decease
Difference/deference Assent/ascent
Illicit/eliicit Eminent/imminent
Illusion/allusion President/precedent
Resource/recourse Disquisition/inquisition

You must have wondered why we have gone into such details of vocabulary
acquisition and vocabulary cognition. Use of effective vocabulary makes our
written communication precise and moreover, it gets the right tone; formal
or informal friendly or distant, approving or disapproving. In other words,
if our vocabulary is proper, we never have to regret to the effect ‘what was
well-thought but never well-taught or well-expressed’.
In addition, it helps us while preparing study material. For example,
when we prepare vocabulary exercises we can grade them, we can explain
them (including the origin of the woed and/or the change in the meaning
of a word over time) better if we know some basic principles of vocabulary
acquisition.
In our own academic writing, moreover, we can choose the right density
of vocabulary, thereby making our written communication effective. If we
know vocabulary acquisition rules, we would tend to use:

1. the right amount of content words (noun, adjective, adverb, verb);

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