easily confused words

Ciao amici! For this week's Italian vocab update I decided to try something different - words that are easily confused. Either because they're false cognates (i.e. words that have different meanings from the English words they look like), or because they look too similar to other Italian words with different menaings. You'll see what I mean! Buono studio.

l'educazione
upbringing, good manners

maleducato
rude, ill-mannered

l'istruzione
education (as in schooling)

sciogliere
to untie, undo, release, dissolve, melt, loosen up

scegliere
to choose

la scogliera
cliff

sono
I am / they are

sogno
I dream, or il sogno = the dream (noun)

il sonno
sleep (noun)

suono
I play (an instrument) / sound (noun)

spingere
to push

spegnere
to turn off (e.g. lights)

spendere
to spend

squagliare
to melt