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While working on your English for competitive exams, it’s also important to build a strong vocabulary. Read our blog on 50 difficult words and meanings to start building a foundation of extensive vocabulary that will help you master English for competitive exams. In addition to this, it’s also important to understand the difference between similar words that have been confusing us for the longest time.

• Lie – be in or assume a horizontal or resting position on a supporting surface.
  Lay – put (something) down gently or carefully.

• Hanged – kill (someone) by tying a rope attached from above around their neck and removing the support from beneath them.
  Hung – suspend or be suspended from above with the lower part dangling free (used for things, not people).

• Adapt – make suitable.
  Adopt – take a child as one’s own.

• Allusion – pleasant and good-tempered.
  Illusion – false notion.

• Besides – by the side.
  Besides – in addition to.

• Childish – Silly.
  Childlike – Innocent.

• Historic – famous or important in history.
  Historical – pertaining to history.

• Verbal – relating to words.
  Verbose – wordy.

• Disinterested – free from bias or prejudice.
  Uninterested – not interested.