WORD LISTSList 4Thu Jun 05 11:30:16 EDT 2025
By Vocabulary.com (NY)
 Learn the correct meanings and usages of these commonly confused words you may encounter on the PSAT exam.
  
parameter
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "parameter" and "perimeter," click here. I had to find an approach, figure out if we could land there, figure out the performance parameters, and tell the company what we were doing.
perimeter
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "parameter" and "perimeter," click here. Thick hedges created a rectangular perimeter along the property line.
parody
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "parody" and "parity," click here. When the French artist Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, he made the most famous parody in art history.
parity
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "parody" and "parity," click here. Whites outnumbered slaves two to one in North Carolina, but in Louisiana and Georgia the populations neared parity.
pitiable
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "pitiable," "pitiful," "piteous" and "pitiless," click here. There must have been something desperate or pitiable in my voice, for he slung his coat back over the partition.
pitiful
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "pitiable," "pitiful," "piteous" and "pitiless," click here. He pushes my pitiful linoleum block aside and gently sets down an enormous book.
piteous
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "pitiable," "pitiful," "piteous" and "pitiless," click here. Runt began to whimper, a piteous sound that made Pax want to comfort him, but Bristle warned him to keep away.
pitiless
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "pitiable," "pitiful," "piteous" and "pitiless," click here. His pitiless and hate-filled eyes locked with mine as he threw the daisy garland to the floor and crushed it with his foot.
prescribe
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "prescribe" and "proscribe," click here. “Did the doctor prescribe any treatments for you, Mother?”
proscribe
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To learn more about the commonly confused words "prescribe" and "proscribe," click here. In Britain, 39 local authorities proscribed it, with a Cornish councillor demanding that all of those involved in its production should be locked up in Broadmoor. The Guardian
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