>Well ... yes and no. "uninterested" means "not interested" as in "... in your topic", whereas "disinterested" means "impartial", as in "... as to which team wins".
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>The point I was making is that there are many English word pairs like this that are used erroneously.

And then there are pairs which aren't pairs, just look so. Just try to weed these out. I took mostly verbs, and a few others that I couldn't resist. Not quite sure about some of them - does the second word mean repetition of the first in some way or not.

act - react
bar - rebar
bound - rebound
buff - rebuff
bus - rebus
cant - recantcall - recall
deem - redeem
decorate - redecorate (give a medal again?)
enforce - reenforce
face - reface
fine - refine
float - refloat
form - reform
fuse - refuse
late - relate
lay - relay
lease - release
load - reload
locate - relocate
mark - remark
match - rematch
mind - remind
move - remove
pair - repair
percussion - repercussion
petition - repetition
play - replay
port - report
present - represent
prove - reprove
pulse - repulse
read - reread
serve - reserve
side - reside
sign - resign
sister - resister
sort - resort
store - restore
tail - retail
tire - retire
tort - retort
treat - retreat
trun - return
venue - revenue
ward - reward