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[trickykitty]

I know all of these, but there's still plenty of times that my brain will switch them around during conversation (you know, as often as I use any of these in conversation in the first place).

gregarious vs garrulous
neophyte vs neonate
endemic vs epidemic
putative vs punitive
comely vs common
affluent vs effluent
riposte vs repose
gurgle vs gargle

If I didn't live in Texas, I might get these two confused:
katydid vs cicada (also vs locust and grasshopper)
In fact, there are plenty of people roaming around these parts that call them locusts, when they are in fact cicadas. This includes using the misnomer in the old Corey Haim movie, Lucas.

(I still remember John from England learning about cicadas and why their "singing" in movies is always reminiscent of hot, hot, heat to us Southerners. Of course, he also saw the "wet road" mirage from heat bouncing off the road for the first time while in the car with me and thought it was absolutely trippy and couldn't understand how I could be so used to it.)

sycophant - I don't confuse this with something else - I just keep forgetting it

and then there's my favorite:
infamous vs notorious