A Military Writer's Handbook
	Words

Commonly Misspelled Words
A
a lot	abbreviate	abhor	absence	absorption
absurd	abundance	abysmal	academic	accede
acceptable	accessible	accidentally	accommodate	accompany
accomplish	accumulate	achievement	acknowledge	acquaint
acquaintance	acquire	acquittal	additionally	address
aggravate	allotted	altogether	amateur	analysis
analyze	annual	apology	apparatus	apparently
appearance	appreciate	appropriate	Arctic	armoury
arrange	artillery	ascend	associate	athlete
attendance	attorney	attrition	audience	authority
auxiliary	awkward
B
bachelor	balance	barbarous	bargain	basically
basis	beginning	behaviour	belief	beneficial
boundary	brilliant	Britain	bulletin	bureau
bureaucracy	burial	business
C
cafeteria	calendar	camouflage	candidate	canister
carburetor	career	Caribbean	category	cemetery
certain	challenge	changeable	character	chief
choose	chose	cigarette	climbed	clothes
collectible	colonel	column	coming	commission
commit	committee	comparative	competitive	completely
comptroller	compulsory	concede	conceivable	concentrate
conference	conqueror	conscience	conscientious	conscious
consensus	controlled	controversial	correspondence	counselor
courteous	criticize	curiosity	curriculum	cylindrical
D
dealt	deceive	decision	defendant	defense
definite	dependent	descend	descendant	describe
description	despair	desperate	develop	dictionary
difference	dilemma	dining	disappearance	disappoint
disastrous	disciple	discipline	disease	dispensable
dissatisfied	dissipate	doctor	dominant	dormitory
drunkenness
E
easily	ecstasy	effect	efficient	eighth
eligible	eliminate	embarrass	eminent	emperor
encouraging	enemy	enthusiastic	enthusiastic	entirely
entrance	environment	equipped	equivalent	erroneous
especially	exaggerate	exceed	excellence	exceptionally
exhaust	exhilarate	existence	exorbitant	expense
experience	extraordinary	extremely
F
facsimile	fallacy	familiar	fascinate	feasible
February	fictitious	forcibly	foreign	foresee
forfeit	forty	fourth	frantically	friend
fuelling	fulfill	fundamental
G
gauge	genealogy	generally	ghost	government
governor	grammar	grievous	guarantee	guard
guardian	guerrilla	guidance
H
harass	height	hemorrhage	hereditary	heroes
hesitancy	hindrance	humorous	hungrily	hypocrisy
hypothesis
I
illiterate	imaginary	imitation	immediately	impromptu
incendiary	incidentally	incredible	indefinitely	independence
indispensable	inevitable	infinite	ingenious	initiation
inoculate	intellectual	intelligence	interference	interpretation
interrupt	iridescent	irrelevant	irresistible	island
J
jealousy	jeopardy	judicial
K
knowledge
L
laboratory	legitimate	leisure	liaison	lieutenant
lightning	literature	loneliness	loose	lose
luxury
M
magazine	maintain	maintenance	manageable	manoeuvre
marriage	marshal	maybe	meant	medicine
medieval	memento	millennium	miniature	mirror
miscellaneous	mischievous	missile	misspell	moccasin
morale	mortgage	muscle	mysterious
N
naturally	necessary	necessity	negotiation	neighbor
nevertheless	niece	ninety	ninth	noticeable
nowadays	nuclear	nuisance
O
obedience	obligation	obstacle	occasionally	occurred
occurrence	official	omission	omitted	operate
opinion	opponent	opportunity	oppression	optimistic
ordinance	ordinarily	ordnance	orient	original
outrageous	overrun
P
pamphlet	parallel	paralyze	particular	pastime
peaceable	peculiar	peer	penetrate	perceive
performance	permanent	permissible	permitted	perseverance
persistence	personal	personnel	perspiration	phenomenon
Philippines	physically	physician	picnicking	pitiful
playwright	pleasant	possess	possibility	possible
potato	potatoes	practically	prairie	precede
precedence	predominant	preference	preferred	prejudice
preparation	prescription	prevalent	primitive	principal
principle	privilege	procedure	proceed	professor
prominent	pronounce	pronunciation	prophesy	psychology
publicly	pursue
Q
quarantine	query	questionnaire	quiet	quite
quizzes
R
realistically	realize	recede	receipt	receive
recognize	recommend	reconnaissance	recurred	reference
referred	relevant	relief	religious	remembrance
reminisce	reminiscence	Renaissance	repetition	representative
resemblance	reservoir	resistance	restaurant	rhythm
ridiculous	roommate
S
sacrifice	salary	sandwich	satellite	scary
scenery	schedule	secede	secretary	seize
sentence	separate	sergeant	several	severely
shepherd	siege	similar	simile	simultaneous
sincerely	soliloquy	sophomore	souvenir	special
species	specifically	specimen	spontaneous	stationary
stationery	statistics	strategy	strength	strenuous
strict	stubbornness	subordinate	subtle	subtly
succeed	sufficient	supersede	suppress	surely
surprise	surround	susceptible	suspicious	syllable
symmetrical	synonymous
T
tangible	tariff	technical	technique	temperament
temperature	tendency	tentative	themselves	theories
therefore	thorough	through (not thru)	till (no ')	tomorrow
tournament	tragedy	transferred	tries	truly
twelfth	tyranny
U
unanimous	undoubtedly	unforgettable	unique	unnecessary
usable	usage	usually	utilization
V
vacuum	valuable	variety	vegetable	vengeance
versus	veteran	vigilant	villain	violence
virtue	visible	vision	volume	vulnerable
W
warrant	warrior	weather	Wednesday	weird
whale	wherever	whether	wholly	withdrawal
worthwhile	wreak	writing	written
Y
yacht	yield