Converse of object

• avoid: The computer uses * to avoid confusion with the letter x.

• cause: Rights of passage The Human Rights Act has caused much confusion among security managers.

• sow: In short, we have degraded and sown confusion into the uppermost ranks of al-Qa'ida.

• ensue: We grew weary of the ensuing confusion and eventually relinquished the name.

• eliminate: Owner control of objects eliminates confusion concerning who controls access to each object.

• prevent: Their explanation; " to prevent consumer confusion " .

Adjective modifier

• considerable: Defining what choice means in the public sector There is considerable confusion over what enhanced choice actually means.

• conceptual: The idea that it might be something more is a mixture of empirical and conceptual confusion.

• unnecessary: It is an issue that I have been involved with, along with Liz, on this work and it causes unnecessary confusion.

• momentary: Every thread seems to deal with some stumbling block or other, or at least momentary confusions.

• slight: In thick cloud, & slight confusion of meeting Italian party, I have gone S not N. Careless.

Modifies a noun

• reign: As blood alcohol concentrations reach 0.18 to 0.30 percent confusion reigns.

Noun used with modifier

• voter: Angus MacNeil ( SNP ) asked about voter confusion under the current system and said STV maximized power to voters.

• consumer: Their explanation; " to prevent consumer confusion " .

Preposition: in

• mind: Therefore despite the fact that the goods were identical, there was no likelihood of confusion in the mind of the targeted public.

• literature: Sources of confusion in literature on the psychic / occult aspects of reality.

Preposition: of

• tongue: The natural consequences soon follow in the confusion of tongues.

• identity: Even stationary, there is no confusion of identity.

• thought: Secondly, there is some confusion of thought about this question of private treatment.