I mean, homonyms exist, confusing them/not knowing a word has one doesn't make it "wrong". Surely you (e: plural, not having a go at you op lol) could tell tories and Tories apart by context (if not capitalisation)?
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Depreciate.
I'm going to Depreciate this computer. That means to get its loss of value on taxes....not to shut it down. The word I meant was Deprecate
"Alternately" when I meant "alternatively".
Noisome means smelly, not noisy.
enormity means serious or grave, not very large.
terrific isnβt always great or amazing; it can be synonymous with terrifying.
"just" was meant to indicate a recent position in time. As in "just now."
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Apparently muted? I was using it like a muted yellow, so yellow but it's been faded in some way. They thought I meant like a muted sound on the computer which meant turned off entirely.
Prostate and prostrate are close to each other in my brain and I don't use either much.
Idk, there were a lot of words I apparently used wrong as a kid but it was never explained how. But also if you jump down someone's throat for a definition right there and then I struggle to give one
I think, you were right about muted all along. Muted in the sense of zero sound I can relate to but it didn't make it into dictionary yet