Vocabulary for IELTS - Confusing word & false friends 1

1. affect

2. effect

(affect/ effect)

1. Tuning the hyperparameters will definitely _________ the model's accuracy

2. The _________ of using a larger dataset for the YOLO model was clearly positive

effect

have an ___ on something (có ảnh hưởng lên thứ gì đó)

1. continous

2. continual

(continual/ continous)

1. The Vast.ai server ran in a ________ process for 48 hours without stopping to train the model

2. We experienced ________ errors (OOM errors) during the training phase, but it worked fine in between

continuous

going on without stopping

continual

Repeated frequently, stopped sometimes

1. advise

2. advice

(advice/ advise)

1. Can you ________ me on how to optimize this clustering algorithm?

2. My instructor gave me some excellent ________ on my project report.

1. damage

2. harm

3. injury

(damage/ injury/ harm)

1. The storm caused severe ________ to the buildings.

2. The chemicals in the river will ________ aquatic life.

3. He suffered a serious ________ while playing sports.

damage

cause _______ (collocation) - broken use for things, house,..

harm

broken use for people, animal, health,...

injure

to hurt

1. prevent

2. avoid

(advoid/ prevent)

1. We added a dropout layer to ________ overfitting in the neural network.

2. You should ________ using raw, uncleaned data.

prevent

______ something from happening - stop it before it happend

avoid

to keep away from it

1. abroad

2. aboard

(aboard/ abroad)

1. I am studying hard to work ________ as an AI Engineer in the future.

2. The captain welcomed all the passengers ________ the flight.

aboard

on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

abroad

Away from one's own country

1. Besides

2. Beside

(beside/ besides)

1. ________ Python, I am also proficient in C# and Dart.

2. My teammate sat ________ me during the entire project presentation.

Besides

= in addition

beside

= next to

1. shortly

2. briefly

(shortly/ briefly)

1. The model is compiling. It will finish ________.

2. Let me ________ explain how the K-Means clustering works

shortly

= soon

1. appreciable

2. appreciative

(appreciative/ appreciable)

1. Upgrading from YOLOv8 to YOLOv11 made an ________ difference in detection speed.

2. I am highly ________ of your help with debugging the database.

appreciative

= thankful

appreciable

easy to be noticed or measured

1. conscientious

2. conscious

(conscientious/ conscious)

1. She is a ________ researcher who always double-checks her data.

2. Users are becoming more ________ of data privacy issues.

conscious

be _______ of- aware of and responding to surroundings

conscientious

working carefully

1. considerable

2. considerate

(considerate/ considerable)

1. Training this deep learning model requires a ________ amount of GPU power.

2. It was very ________ of you to bring me coffee while I was fixing bugs.

considerable

=large, significant

considerate

= thoughtful

1. canal

2. channel

(canal, channel)

1. The Suez ________ is a famous man-made waterway.

2. We need a secure communication ________ to transfer the API data.

canal

long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation (man-made)

1. inspect

2. control

(control/ inspect)

1. The QA team will ________ the code for any hidden flaws before launch.

2. We use the Minimax algorithm to ________ the AI's moves in the Caro game.

inspect

= test/ check

1. criticism

2. objection

(objection/ criticism)

1. Constructive ________ from the professor helped me improve my thesis.

2. The plan to charge for API access faced strong ________ from developers.

criticism

feedback (have negative and positive)

objection

feedback but just have negative

1. wounded

2. injured

(injured/ wounded)

1. Three soldiers were severely ________ in the battle.

2. He got ________ playing football last weekend.

injured

get hurt bcs accident

wounded

get hurt bcs gun, bomb,knife,...

1. during

2. for

3. while

(during/ while/ for)

1. The server crashed ________ the final testing phase.

2. I have been running this Python script ________ three hours.

3. ________ we were testing the system, a sudden error occurred.