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A
a, an	abbreviations and acronyms	about	around
aboveground	academic degrees	accent marks	acceptable
accept	access	accessible	accidentally
accommodate	accompany	accomplish	according to
accumulate	acknowledgment	act	acting
action	active vs. passive	actually	addresses
adequate number of	adj	adjacent to	adjective
ad-lib	administration	ad nauseam	adopt, approve
adv	advance	advance-purchase tickets	adverb
advertise, advertisement, advertising	adviser	affect, effect	affirmative action
afford an opportunity	African American	agencywide	agenda
ages	aid	AIDS	align
all, any, most, some	all of	allot, allotted, allotting	allow
all right	all-round	almost all	along with
a lot	all ready, already	already exist	alright
alternate		American Indian	Americans with Disabilities Act
among	amount, number	amount of	ampersand
Amtrak	and also	and, but	and/or
an estimated	annual	annual meeting	anti-
anticipate, expect	anybody	anytime	anxious
apostrophe	append	April Fools' Day	appendixes
appropriate	approximately	argument	arrive
ascertain	Asian	as if	as, like
as long as	as of now	as per	as regards
assist	assistant	Associated Press	assuming that
assure	as to	as well as	ATM
at about	at all times	attain	at the end of
at the present time, at this point in time, at this particular time, at this time	at the time	attempt	attired
attorney, lawyer	attribution	audiovisual	augment
auxiliary	avenue	average of	average person
awards	awhile
B
backfill	back up	backward	bad, badly
baloney, bologna	barrel	bay	because
bedrock	before	begin	belief, believe
benefit	beside	between ... and, from ... to	bi
bimonthly	biota	biweekly	black
board	board of directors	boldface	bona fide
both	both ... and	boulevard	boundary
brackets	braille	brand names	break in
bridge	British Columbia	broadcast	broccoli
building	Burlington Northern	bus, buses	business
bus stop	by means of	byproduct

C
CAD	calendar	call letters	cancel, canceled, canceling, cancellation
can, may	cannot	capital, capitol	capitalization
committees	facilities	job titles and descriptions	organizational structure
county council	programs, projects and plans	Capitol Hill	carpool
	catalog	cease	CD-ROM
cellular phone, cellular telephone	Celsius	cement, concrete	center around
central business district	cents	century	chair
chairman, chairperson, chairwoman	changeable	changeover	channel
chapter	character	charts, tables	check up
chief	child care	children's	chinook salmon
choice between, choose between	cities and towns	citizen	citizens band
city council	citywide	clean up	clearly
cliché	co-	coast	coed
coho salmon	coliform bacteria	collective nouns	collide
colon	coming	comma	commitment
committee	community action grant	compact disc	company names
comparable	compared with	compatible	complement
complete	comply with	compose	composition titles
compound words	conceal	concerning	congress
congressman	connoisseur	conscience,	consensus
consolidate	constitute	constitution	construct
contact	contiguous to	continual	contractions
control	convince, persuade	cooperate	Corps of Engineers
councilmember	county	countywide	court decisions
courthouse	criteria, criterion	criticize	crosstown
cul-de-sac	currently	customary	cut and cover
cut back	cut off
D
Dad and Mom	dangling modifiers	dash	data
database	data processing	dates	day care
daylight-saving time	days of the week	daytime	dead end
decades	decimals	decision-maker	deductible
deem	defendant	definite, definitely	delete
demolish, destroy	demonstrate	denote	depart
dependent	deputy	designate	desirable
desire	desirous of	desist	detain
determine	deterrent	dialogue	different
differ from, differ with	dilemma	dimensions	directions and regions
director	dis-	disabled	confined
deaf and dumb	disease	invalid	suffers from
unfortunate	victim	disc	disinterested
diskette	disseminate	distances	districts
ditto marks	doctor	dollars	donate
DOS	down payment	downriver	downtown
-drive, drive	drive-in	dry dock	due to
during the time, during the course of

E
each	each other	Eastern Washington	ecology
ecosystem	ecstasy	editor	effect many changes
effectuate	e.g., i.e.	either	either ... or,
elderly	Election Day	eliminate	ellipsis
e-mail	embarrass	embayment	employ
employee	endeavor	en route	ensure, insure
entitled	enumerate	environmental impact statement	Environmental Protection Agency
equal employment opportunities	equally as	espresso	et al.
etc.	euphemisms	everyday	everyone
evident	ex-	exaggerate	except for
except when	exclamation point	excessive number of	existence
exit numbers	exorbitant	expedite
F
facilitate	facility	facsimile, fax	fact
fact-finding	factor	Fahrenheit	fairly
family, genus, species	FAQ	farebox	far-ranging
farther	Father's Day	feasible	fecal coliform bacteria
federal	Federal Emergency Management Agency
feedback	ferryboat	fewer	finalize
first-come, first-served	firsthand	fiscal, monetary	fiscal year
fish	flammable	flex-time	flier
floodplain	floodwaters	floppy disk	fluorescent
following	follow up	foot	forcible
forecast	foreword	former	formulate
for the reason that	forward	for your information	fractions
free	free-lance	front line	fulfill, fulfilled, fulfilling
full-	full-time equivalent	full time	fundamental
fund raising, fund-raising, fund-raiser	future plans
G
Garbl	Gas Works	general manager	get
get-together	give and take	glamour	go-between
goodbye	good, well	good will	government
governmental bodies	governor	grade, grades	grammar
grant-in-aid, grants-in-aid	grass roots	ground breaking	ground cover
groundskeeper	groundwater	group names	guerrilla
H
half of	half-mast, half-staff	hanged	harass, harassment
has no	have an effect on	headlines, headings	head-on
headquarters	height	henceforth	her
high-occupancy	high-tech, high tech	highway designations	hillside
his	Hispanic	historic, historical	hit-and-run
HIV	holidays	hold a meeting	home, house
home page	homosexual	hopefully	hors d'oeuvre
horsepower	host, hosted	hot line	however
HTML	HTTP	hygiene	hyphen
hypocrisy

I
idiosyncrasy	if and when	impact	implement
imply	in-	in addition to	inadvertent
in a ... manner	including,	incur, incurred, incurring	in conjunction with
incorporated	incur, incurred, incurring	indeed	indexes
indicate	indispensable	individual	indoor
in fact	inflammable	in general	initials
initiate	in, into, in to	in lieu of	in most cases
innovate	inoculate	in order to	in place of
input, output, throughput	inquire	inquiry, enquiry	in reference to
in regard to	in spite of	institute	interface
inter-	in terms of	International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers	International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America
Internet	International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers	in the amount of	in the context of
in the course of	in the event that	in the vicinity of	in view of the fact that
irrelevant	irregardless	island	it appears, it would appear that
it is probable	it's	-ize
J
jargon	jeopardy	jewelry	join together
judge	judgment	junior	jury
K
K	kilowatt	kind of, sort of	know-how
kudos
L
laid	lake	last	lay
layover	law	lectern	left off
legislative	legislature	legitimate	leisure
lend	less than, under	liable, likely	liaison
liaison	license	lieu	life cycle
life-size	lifestyle	lift-equipped	light, lighted, lighting
lightning	light rail	likable	likelihood, likely
lists	literally	livable	locality
located	local of a union	located	login, logon, logoff
long distance, long-distance	long range	long-term	longtime
lowercase
M
made a statement	magazine names	mail stops	mainframe
maintenance	majority	make reference to	manageable
manager	mandatory	maneuver	man-made
man	manner	manpower	many, much
marshland	masthead	materialize	may, might
MB	media	memento	methanol
metrics	microphone, mike	mid	midday
middle initials	midnight	miles	miles per gallon
miles per hour	millennium	minority	minuscule
minus sign	miscellaneous	Miss, Mr., Mrs., Ms.	misspelling
mitigate	mock-up	modifications	money
monies	Monorail	months	monthlong
more and more	more, most	moreover	Mother's Day
motion	mount	mountains	multi-
mustache	myself

N
n.	names	nationwide	near miss, near-miss
necessitate	negative	neither	nevertheless
new development	newsgroup	newspapers	New Year's, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve
nickname	nighttime	No.	nobody
non-	noncontroversial	none	none at all
noon	no one	non-preventable	noticeable
not only ... but also	noun	number	numbers
numerous
O
objective	obligated	obligation	occasion
occur	of all	office	officeholder
off of	off-	off-peak	off-ramp
off-site	of major importance	OK	omitted
on	one time, one-time, onetime	one of the	ongoing
online	only	on, onto	on-site
on the part of	operational	optimum	or
oral	Organization of Petroleum	organizations	Oriental
orientate	outgoing	over	over-
-over	overall	over and over	overexaggerate
oversight
P
page numbers	paradigm	parallel	parameter
	parentheses	partially	part time
party affiliation	passer-by, passers-by	past due	patrol, patrolled, patrolling
pavilion	PCBs	peak hour	people
per	percent	percentages	per diem
period	period of time	permissible	persevere, perseverance
persistent	personally	personnel	pickup
pile, piling	pileup	PIN	pipeline
place	plain English, plain language	planner	planning
plans	plants	playwright	Plexiglas
plurals	plus	point	police, police department
policy-maker	political parties	political divisions	politics
portion	possess	possessives	possibility
ppm	precede	predecessor	predesign
prefixes	preload	premiere	prerogative
preplanning	prepositions	present	presently
present	preserve	president	Presidents Day
press	pressurized	preventative	Primary Metropolitan
principle	prior	prioritize	prior to
privilege	procedure	proceed	professor
profit sharing	proportions	provinces	proviso, provisos
pseudonym	public	public information document	Puget Sound
punctuation	purchase	pursuant to	push-button
Q
quarter	question mark	questionnaire	queue
quotations	quotation marks	quotation

R
race	railroad	rainstorm	ranges
rank	rank and file	rarely	rather
ratios	re-	really	Realtor
reason why	receive	recent	record
recommend	recur	re-elect, re-election
referable	refer to as	regard	regarding
relate	relevant	religion	religious
remain	remainder	remove	renaissance
renown, renowned	reoccur	repetitious	reproduce
request	reroute	reside	residences
resistant	restaurateur	restroom	result in
retain	retrofit	rhythm
right-of-way	river	river bank	road
rock 'n' roll	roommate	room numbers	rooms
round trip	round up	R.S.V.P.	runoff
rush hour
S
sacrilegious	scenario	scheme	screen saver
sea level	seasons	SeaTac	Seattle-Tacoma
second	secretary	section	secure
seizure	semi-	semiannual	semicolon
semimonthly	semiweekly	senior citizen	sentence
separate	serve	serviceable	set up
7-Eleven	sex	shall	sharing the same
Sheetrock	she	sheriff	shopworn
should	shut down	shut off	sightseeing, sightseer
similar	sizable	single-occupant	situation
-size	Skid Road, Skid Row	skillful	slide show
snowfall, snowflake, snowman, snowplow, snowstorm	Social Security	some of the	somewhat
SOV	species	speeches	speechmaker, speechmaking
speeds	spelling	spell out	split infinitives
sport-utility vehicle	spreadsheet	springtime	square
stadium, stadiums	staff	startup	state
state names	state with confidence	station	stationary
storm event	stormwater	storm weather	strategize
street	sub-	subcommittee	subsequently
subsequent, subsequent to	substitute	succeed	successfully
sufficient number of	suffixes	summertime	summon
superintendent	supervisor	supersede	supplement
surprise	surrounded	symbols	syndrome

T
take action	take-home pay	take over	task force
TDD	teammate	tee ball
teen	telephone	temperament	temperatures
terminate	than, then	that, which	their, there, they're
there	thing	this, that, these, those, it	threshold
ticketbook	till, 'til, until	time	time frame
time line	timetable	titles	to a certain degree
tomorrow	tonight	total number	total, totaled
to, too, two	Touch-Tone	toward	to whatever extent
toxic	trademark	trade off	transfer, transferable, transferred, transferring
transmission	transpire	travel, traveled,	trolley
trouble call	trout	try	try out
T-shirt	TTY	tune up	TV
U
ukulele	ultimate	underlining
under the provisions of	under way	union names	unique
United Kingdom	United States	university names	University of Washington
unless or until	until	until such time	up
up-	-up	uppercase	upriver
usage	user friendly	use up	U-turn
V
v	valley	vanpool	VDT
vendor	verbs	versus	very
Veterans	via	viable	vice versa
videocassette	video game	videotape	Vietnam
VIP, VIPs	virgule	virtually	voice mail
W
Washington's Birthday	wastebasket	was, were	water body
waterway	we	weekday, weekend, weeklong
weird	well	went on to say	Western Washington
wheelchair	whether	while	white
who	who's, whose	-wide	wield
willful	will, would	wintertime	withhold
with reference to	with regard to	word processing	workday
worker's compensation	work force	workout	workplace
work plan	work site	workstation	work units
workweek	worldwide	World Wide Web	worn-out
worthwhile
X
Xerox
Y
year-end	yearlong	year-round	years
yield	you	your money's worth	your, you're
Z
zero	ZIP code

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