It’s time for “Confusing Words of the Week” where I take a set of two or three words that get confused and give you definitions and try to give you a memory trick to help you remember when to use which word. If you have words that confuse you, use the Ask PTB tab on the website or send an email to [email protected] and they may appear here soon!
Rifle – to ransack and steal
- They rifled through the dresser drawers looking for valuables.
Riffle – to flip through
- I don’t like to riffle a magazine, I read it page by page.
Memory Tips:
I would probably think of “riffle” with multiple “f” as the sound a magazine or book makes when your flip the pages–the same sound over and over (we’ll use the “f” sound).
Rifle I would associate with criminals using guns, so criminals are the ones who would be ransacking and stealing.
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