principal / principle の違い
意味の違い
| principal | 主要な／校長・元本 | |
| principle | 原理・原則・信条 |
色がついた文字が、つづりの違う部分です。
見分けるコツ
principLE は ruLE（規則）と同じ語尾。金融では principal が「元本」の意味で頻出。
例文で確かめる
- The loan's principal must be repaid within ten years.そのローンの元本は10年以内に返済しなければならない。
- The company refused to act against its principles.その会社は自らの信条に反する行動を拒んだ。
紛らわしい語ドリルで確かめる
アプリで解く →120組から15問を出題。取り違えた語は自動で単語帳に入ります。
ほかの紛らわしい語
- conform / confirm
- adapt / adopt / adept
- affect / effect
- complement / compliment
- stationary / stationery
- economic / economical
- historic / historical
- sensible / sensitive
- respectful / respective / respectable
- imply / infer
- prescribe / proscribe
- precede / proceed
- elicit / illicit
- eminent / imminent
- ensure / insure
- continual / continuous
- deduce / deduct
- loose / lose
- lend / borrow
- rise / raise
- lie / lay
- access / assess / excess
- expand / expend
- comprehensive / comprehensible
- considerable / considerate
- industrial / industrious
- successful / successive
- literal / literary / literate
- invaluable / valueless
- alternate / alternative
- discreet / discrete
- flout / flaunt
- prosecute / persecute
- perspective / prospective
- collaborate / corroborate
- accept / except
- advise / advice
- council / counsel
- moral / morale
- personal / personnel
- device / devise
- dividend / divided
- asset / assert
- depreciate / deprecate
- compose / comprise
- exhaustive / exhausting
- emigrate / immigrate
- vocation / vacation
- statue / statute / stature
- ingenious / ingenuous
- credible / credulous
- averse / adverse
- canvas / canvass
- sculpture / sculptor
- effective / efficient
- rational / rationale
- reign / rein
- brake / break
- accede / exceed
- collect / correct
- vary / very
- through / thorough / though
- later / latter
- beside / besides
- hoard / horde
- wander / wonder
- precedent / president
- bond / bound
- allude / elude
- allusion / illusion / delusion
- ascent / assent
- censor / censure
- cite / site / sight
- climactic / climatic
- compulsive / compulsory
- conscience / conscious
- contemptible / contemptuous
- decent / descent / dissent
- defuse / diffuse
- disinterested / uninterested
- envelop / envelope
- farther / further
- flair / flare
- forward / foreword
- intelligent / intelligible
- loath / loathe
- marital / martial
- militate / mitigate
- overdo / overdue
- peak / peek / pique
- perpetrate / perpetuate
- regretful / regrettable
- reluctant / reticent
- tortuous / torturous
- weather / whether
- wreak / wreck
- appraise / apprise
- cease / seize
- causal / casual
- coarse / course
- confidant / confident
- desert / dessert
- eligible / illegible
- human / humane
- prophecy / prophesy
- raze / raise
- tenant / tenet
- vain / vein
- populace / populous
- patience / patients
- dual / duel
- alter / altar
- fewer / less
- number / amount
- between / among
- imitate / intimate / intimidate
- incidence / incidents
- quite / quiet
- emit / omit