- Anathema
- Apotheosis
- Ascent, ascendance, ascendancy, etc.
- Behoove
- Belated
- Belie
- Body politic
- Brainchild
- Chalk up vs. chock
- Collegial vs. collegiate
- Collocate
- Compose vs. comprise
- Concerted
- Conflict of interest
- Dearth
- Debark or disembark
- Deconstruction
- Deign
- Dilemma
- Disassemble vs. dissemble
- Downfall vs. downside
- Endear
- Enervate
- Epicenter
- Existential
- Factoid
- Figurehead
- Futz vs putz
- Gambit
- Garter snake
- Gibe, jibe, jive
- Gist vs. jist
- Good vs well
- Idiom vs colloquialism
- Ironic
- Militant or terrorist
- Misnomer
- Momentarily
- Nimrod
- Non sequitur
- Nonplussed
- Oxymoron
- Perchance
- Peruse
- Plethora
- Ponderous
- Potentiality
- Prodigal son
- Proverbial vs figurative
- Renege vs rescind
- Shutter vs. shudder
- Since vs because
- Transpire
- Trooper or trouper
- Trope
- Upshot
- Verbiage
- Vouchsafe