Avoid vocabulary mistakes with this fun guide to tricky and troublesome words! With concise and authoritative usage notes from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, this guide explains common English-language errors -- whether it's mixing up affect and effect ; blatant and flagrant ; or disinterested and uninterested , or stumbling over sound-alikes including discrete / discreet or principal / principle . Other notes tackle such classic...

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