Words in
bold are
homophones
(homonyms).
1.00 I
a
1.05
in
is
1.10
you
he
out
1.15
good it
me
old
one
see
she ten up
1.20
book come get go love
time
we
car day the
1.25
that
have
into today yes
1.30
all
dog hat like and
1.35
big ice look year
boy
but
1.40
air
how over can did looking
1.45
men
red
at home
may
Homophones:
I/eye/aye in/inn
you/ewe/yew he/hee
me/mi one/won see/sea/si/C
time/thyme we/wee/oui
all/awl boy/buoy
but/butt air/heir/e’er
red/read may/May
Heteronyms:
have (“hav” v. transitive)
As in: I have a pencil.
have (“uv” auxiliary verb)
As in: I should have had a pencil.
have (“haf” half of the
auxiliary verb phrase “have to ____”)
As in: I have to buy a new pencil.
1.50
her was
are
be
going land long man my play saw toy work
1.55
if
add
away back call cowboy room cat
new
1.60 them bad came
end fat hand his mother on
read
this
sun
fun
1.65
cars food had hot part run same school show
week
1.70
cow five give got
him
house little most oil put
tea
way
night
1.75
box
bed down ago eat
feet
line times
1.80
about
ball
gave hard ran will bell
do
has
May
milk say stop
1.85
face from moon pay when bank books
mail
thing top town
wood
cap
1.90
letter
more
nut page sat save ship
so
two
dear
fish tree age
1.95
bee
June law side stay stone game hope low
pie
six tell
Homophones:
add/ad new/knew/gnu
read/reed/Reid sun/son
week/weak him/hymn
tea/tee/ti way/weigh
night/knight box/Bach’s
feet/feat/fete ball/bawl
do/dew/due May/may
male/mail wood/would
more/Moore so/sew/sow/sol
two/too/to dear/deer
be/bee/Bea pie/pi
2.00
black class hill kiss last let must
not
sand
sea
state what with am art became boat corn
drive gun
hay
off park post well went card pet nest
2.05
best cup fishing report sing after become comes
fast fire foot green head hen three
2.10 cut lake pig
as fall
hall
name
some
song without date door outside doing
2.15
just take bedroom camp
days
don’t help nice river slow loved ride
south
2.20
cent
tall war working asking cover father grow kill
left store street telling tip walk bat gas
grade
nine reading sister
son
summer tonight dad
your
2.25
calling heat word cows farm mad north us water
beside make miles rat they dark feed
2.30
ring under words
bill
city gold noon note who any baby called cave
every thank tree woods
west
2.35
bay
sick
butter care
east
happy
lay
showing stand think brown coat fox king never
older talk along
boys
2.40
yard longer lunch plant pop weeks better ear
hands homes map train someone years goods far
2.45
wall belong
rain
hour
ink lost mark move
of
outline playing rest
sent
took anyone bus cats dig
poor
Homophones:
must/mussed not/knot
sea/see/si hay/hey
hall/haul some/sum
days/daze south/South
cent/sent/scent
grade/grayed/greyed son/sun
your/you’re/yore north/North
ring/wring bill/Bill
west/West sick/sic
east/East lay/lei
boys/boy’s/boys’/buoys
rain/rein/reign hour/our
our/are of/have (when preceded by
should, could, would or might. See
footnote on page 1)
sent/cent/scent poor/pour/pore (In some
dialects)
2.50
an
list pot bring cook football luck sleep tent
why each joy
rose
snow win gum
then
mud sometime spot
2.55
arm lines cake dance lover much said duck even
landing money net open place trip glass ham
loves pages rock
bear
2.60 dress fly
playhouse bath clean rent test dogs paying seed
soon
2.65
grass race wind alive banker cooking
pen
story willing
can’t
egg
for
made
winter eating
2.70
mile near saying sport ask could dry ears July
moved sad sir stove taken things wife large
looked pan round sheep shop sky apple now
2.75
candy hunt likes
or
dates hunter names rich body gate gone lamp
meat
paper
real
around
deer
drove fort hog late nap
role
seen
2.80
adding keep oh walking yesterday bone child
handed
know
less lived pine port
told
inside spell yellow blow
bread
march small states bag boats games
2.85
hunting recall tank
would
alike doorway hate job killing kind makes pat
star being cry want toys Monday spelling
2.90
flower hats dust ill joke meal mill cool goat
key
light other reader rope rug something wet worked
blue
fine forget
our
seeing uptown
2.95
table yet also dish fill lumber market parts
seven singing
toe
blank cage count guns push rooms zoo cream
four
growing
hole
try
Homophones:
an/Ann/Anne rose/rows
bear/bare/Bayer pen/pin
can’t/cant for/fore/four
made/maid or/ore
gate/gait meat/meet/mete
real/reel deer/dear
role/roll know/no
told/tolled bread/bred
would/wood key/quay/cay/qui
blue/blew/bleu
our/hour—or—our/are toe/tow
four/fore/for hole/whole
3.00
hair
saved afternoon helping maker railroad clock
falling holding
mean
row
balls
block cakes caps harm hills jump sit spring
wish given dolls
3.05
airport hit myself case glad overcome played
send anything because brave cart dream gives
high
milking stamp tan pick start below
3.10 dime
done
income pack pipe
size
sunlight banking base danger
pray
somewhat drop everyone wanted
world
beds
buy
railway
sent
news
roof doll
tail
3.15
earth cross added baseball club maps people pink
takes were white barn cups grave lands peach
plate
sail
history
lives
rule forgive forgot funny own pigs rice short
bedtime
3.20
nail
bake
foods
form
lakes
larger leg life missing
nobody recover ships supper window fished hop
lot
road
thin
die
kid oven
3.25
live
ton cans inch master bird dinner handing
right
singer stage
used
wise banks bats flag mine awake bees
bills
cards
3.30
wash able flowers packing talking trade drink
remove reported silk bean cattle crop faster
grove horn many player snowman worker
ant
dip doors
here
saves sunset thanking eggs
flower
team
3.35
born
deep
eight
landed
March
moving sending skin sold walls wide
fur
killed
need
price salt soil sound standing
plow
rings
truck wine belt clear gay lard lad
3.40
contest
sunshine ahead himself string tenth cone deal
farming laws tops
use
cold having number somebody caves
gray
kids schools
wave
3.45
above blowing only rubber teach clay party pool
sides still washing yards bud cost full goats
lots pal puts snowball brick ever fell
grandmother log set making overlook tap
very
flat
pin
Sunday
Homophones:
high/hi done/dun
size/sighs base/bass pray/prey
world/whirled buy/by/bye
cent/scent/sent news/gnus
tail/tale sail/sale
road/rowed/rode die/dye
right/write/rite bills/Bill’s
ant/aunt here/hear flower/flour
team/teem born/borne
eight/ate March/march
fur/fir need/knead
plow/plough rings/wrings
use/ewes gray/grey wave/waive
very/vary pin/pen
Heteronyms:
lives (rhymes with dives)/lives
(rhymes with gives) live
(rhymes with dive)/live
(rhymes with give) used
(rhymes with oozed)/used to
(rhymes with boost to) contest
(n. KAH’n test)/contest (v.
kun TEST) use(v. rhymes
with ooze)/use (n. rhymes with
juice)
3.50 dated draw ranch teacher leave
lock
office pies towns bark before broke ending
ends gift nearly sang
by
crow didn’t girls giving homesick
wee
hide later looks shine eats wishing
3.55
please
fight girl point wire wool frog miss phone
rested streets
tire
houses understand wing burn driver safe smart
somehow sorry bars beach delay golden jar
3.60 act rate hits order always
learn person ducks farmer getting hopes ready
sixteen stars teaching ape
ate
eye
helped prove tie trick yourself apart bells fit
load
thanks
where
beat
den finger harder
dam
tooth
3.65 bright power trust depart
change neck rail rented
shoe
should army found garden lap nothing sailing
shipment smoke
turn
hours
pole
reach rush shore wings pup grand leaves plants
3.70 brand crossing lasted paint
zone bent country finding grain
nose
rivers seat space
sweet
than
trains beans
cash
cents
colder dislike early lord mice pans path pulling
sometimes sports study trail booklet lack
moonlight places remark
sale
vine coats
hear
roads bend October pleased
3.75 snowing headed once passing
posted faces strong tin daylight ground mouse
plan unhappy drinking aside
3.80 covering almost bunch true
becomes clubs mouth playmate return showed
anybody birds bride cheer nights pump wax wild
mailed reports bags close neat pull asleep fan
3.85 next unable chair file flow
numbers tar behind
great
unlike whatever
ants
first grape hardly longest
pain
queen steam within ages anywhere beast like
mailing jack
find
3.90 postmaster payment blood export
forever grey kindly teeth battle discount
horse
lovely oldest ox holes sack spend spoke stamps
tool trips however itself rag rainbow smile
traps unless camping forest rides runs swing
eyes
meet
3.95 lip letters notes rub cooked
ended keeping named arms bet dart dot few
keys
laying lights reporting works chart handy heads
helps
inn
notebook apples damp fear
hold
horns
there
songs hogs
Homophones:
lock/loch/lough by/bye/buy/bi we/wee/oui
please/pleas tire/tyre ate/eight eye/I/aye
load/lode/lowed where/wear beat/beet
dam/damn shoe/shoo turn/tern pole/poll
hours/ours nose/knows sweet/suite than/then
cash/cache cents/sense/scents sale/sail
hear/here nights/knights wax/whacks
great/grate ants/aunts pain/pane/Payne
find/fined horse/hoarse eyes/ayes
meet/meat/mete keys/quays/cays in/inn
hold/holed there/they’re/their
Heteronyms:
close (v. rhymes with hose)/close
(adj. rhymes with dose)
4.00
half
mankind brother self staying voted driven
floor selling tons dead falls print soft
stands removed tag living mat shout tone
walked everyday
4.05
rained
fix listed brings herself largest rang sin wheat
both carry dash inches stated wells keeps lesson
matter member
reads
replace
shoes
sooner
ways
legs means rolling storm boot
coal
lead
pony
4.10 votes bugs church desk covered
dressing fireplace planting sets shape tables
warm clocks kitten
pair
swim belonging
mix
rules sank thinking handle
marks
Miss
4.15 display leading planted reward
rains
suit center lime score smaller stuck bottle
hearing kinds overlooked press
sons
(any more)
gets indoors mate picking putting southwest
ringing
sings tame starting hut
4.20 western died grant soap young
another feeds parted shell jumps
main
sixty
tears
death jumping somewhere waters across awoke
lets
anyway
raining
to
cannot penny
4.25 charge whenever cape leader
roses
bears
copper cutting everybody sink task track upset
wooden branch broken farmers filling ray these
bush frank spark tells everything mixed skins
trunk carts rather schoolhouse taking cast lark
papers
4.30 speed boss protest rear cares
dressed fellow ripe thick catch grades outfit
season trace
weak
airplane bless crown picked tide cuts hanging
started
needed
roll
wagon lady
4.35
pea
pounds saving beef players
sum
bands
navy plates slip
weed
fire offer thankful wanting dozen hoped
hose
meeting puppy wake covers eaten wheel bond hens
rake
4.40 belongs twin December sidewalk
teams basket rushing thinks woke
won
boots flock glove hike others outstanding clown
easy hang happen pond restore seeds spoon step
asked blind pass sisters trap
no
sleeps April
4.45 quart sounds table besides dug
hell lies lips pulled treat welcome workers
dresser dresses event fool fork grandfather
helpful
jail
leap morning arrow
aunt
dame lamps
plane
stick bit drying meals snowed
Homophones:
half/have (You have to give half
to me) rained/reigned/reined
reads/reeds/Reid’s shoes/shoos coal/Cole
meet/meat/mete keys/quays/cays in/inn
hold/holed there/they’re/their lead/led
pair/pear/pare mix/Mick’s marks/Marx
Miss/miss anymore/any more
rains/reins/reigns sons/suns died/dyed
main/Maine/mane tears/tiers lets/let’s
to/too/two bears/bares weak/week tide/tied
needed/kneaded roll/role pea/pee sum/some
bands/bans weed/we’d hose/hoes teams/teems
won/one no/know jail/gaol morning/mourning
aunt/ant
Heteronyms:
lead (v. rhymes with bead)/lead
(n. rhymes with bed) tears
(n. rhymes with cheers)/tears
(v. rhymes with cares)
4.50 washed between flame painted pure
seventeen booked
check
cookies oats owl pens badly driving holder
sharp such cabin opens noise
seem
thanked
cane
farms
God
outdoors Friday mothers
4.55 anyhow fully stones hunted
leaving stock trying dishes higher strange
fallen felt goes grace kick November persons
proved readers sixth tender tiny tribe cotton
daddy fifty
shall
tower bull
earn
jars northwest opening
4.60 payments range teachers
clearing dances snake behold drawing fame
printed helpless newspaper temper bathing bones
sheet logs
pains
rugs flying smell
4.65 fee
grown
relate beloved enjoy understanding
heart
mostly mount blanks blocks closed jolly likewise
plays stream
bow
jacks twenty kits brain
sell
4.70
needs
bound cleaning deck highway ocean parks pipes
sailed crops rank spending
bite
bought
alone
buying pant shows tiger department
4.75 points
been
heard
wrote
cases crime spoil whoever again boxes charm
furs
pins
shot undertake acting goodness knife melt mend
monkey printing races sizes skip brush uncle
sheets
4.80
content
brothers children discover fingers
might
movies ticket
lean
loud seats together windmill board hung marked
nails pillow
pride
reached watched dine lucky sleeping feeding
silly stores indeed yours
4.85 drum gloves loving turned wrong
flash feast steamer hardest
I’ll
cleaned crossed join dandy dirt drinks lion
maid
4.90
per
junk coin glow raw belonged classes dreams
learned counting lift
none
overshoes pointed brought
build
building hurt locked rocks snowballs wasn’t wore
birthday fact letting seal setting shade tools
twice wished ones
4.95 placed movement burning changes
health tray counted fail kisses members picture
refuse
sounded swings began begun brass mills slowly
sunny
fathers I’m invite jelly renew shame straw
dollar
poles
September shirt
weekly
listing
Homophones:
check/cheque seem/seam cane/Cain God/god
shall/shell earn/urn pains/panes/Payne’s
heart/hart grown/groan bow/Bo/beau bow/bough
sell/cell needs/kneads bite/byte alone/(a
loan) been/bin heard/herd wrote/rote
furs/firs might/mite lean/lien pride/pried
I’ll/isle/aisle maid/made per/purr none/nun
build/billed sunny/Sonny poles/polls
weekly/weakly
Heteronyms:
bow (n. rhymes with go)/bow (v. rhymes with
cow)
content (v. kun TEN’t)/content
(n. KAH’n tent)
refuse (v. ree f’YOOz)/refuse
(n. (REF f’yooz)
5.00 reaching invited kindness wipe
chicken glasses meantime police wedding
evening ours pile strings untie hind
lone
while beg carload follow iron pocket cared
eve walks wolf gallon ford schoolmate
fighting stump bench delight county
5.05 plans posters quick remarks
robe spear
already
hairs
laugh maple meaning rod doctor
sewing
tires wed her wires maybe wonder
5.10 nation hated cause
knew
lace notebooks least partly running those upward
weeds bigger eighteen filled fixed
plain
prices youth
fence
honey rushed
whole
peas
flew
hurry hammer snows
pail
tents
5.15 group powers island remain
retail sample talks address crash drunk host
raise
wired bottom clouds
cord
nor passes roast sticks alarm chop
peace
sitting I’ve sort torn bob
5.20
tax
tune contain globe sugar fold folder he’s jokes
wants feel stood returning inform lend cloud
lane
5.25 owner danced drain program
aid
amount basement fright spoons glance ruler share
agree bushes
packed
thought turning watered wheels calls kittens
floors loads slide
5.30 scout drug postage import slice
dew
railroads hello shortly forms lawn blame blast
blues harvest hollow
lamb
painful peaches
stair
starts cloth frost lined soup
5.35 eastern improve skill dearest
friend express
rack
silver
ax
breath chairs lowest
record
shipments arrows beating hundred
sake
talked worry
write
basketball instead lump gather opened
5.40 chapter station boil
facts
tube upper barks cleared
color
loaded stamped wishes seals shades acted stunt
windows
sew
tore
5.45 rates booklets failed held
nurse painter phoned travel stranger withdraw
files hotel otherwise pasture
wait
baked drill nature noted tend
weather
changing dreamed everywhere
uses
warmed dolly
stayed
mind
coming
Homophones:
lone/loan hairs/hares sewing/sowing
tires/tyres knew/new/gnu plain/plane
fence/Fent’s whole/hole peas/pees
flew/flu/flue pail/pale tents/tense
raise/rays/raze cord/chord/cored peace/piece
tax/tacks lane/lain aid/aide packed/pact
dew/do/due lamb/lam stair/stare rack/wrack
ax/axe write/rite/right/wright
facts/fax color/colour sew/sow/so/sol
wait/weight weather/whether stayed/staid
mind/mined
Heteronyms:
address (n. ADD dress)/address
(v. uh DRESS)
record (v. ree KOH’r-d)/record
(n. REK kurd)
sake (SAY’k)/sake
(SAH kay)
uses (n. YOO sis)/uses
(v. YOO ziz)
5.50 oak shower worms zero snap third
bitter changed greet robin thousand steps
dull hook coast platform remind shut throw
timber heap moreover waiting till
it’s
5.55 charges drag highest tasted
blade enjoying sickness statement trouble demand
dollars enjoyed grapes midnight sliding
which
gardens isn’t stories month pays
arose
riding
5.60 pretty nearest baskets cable
frozen proper visit huge nearer spoken stocking
dare eleven sure teaspoon
chance
cheap
grounds
bases
battles
does
trucks lame rage
waited
mule
5.65 votes notice vast bid bunk
narrow
records
younger depend family grows nicely orders
windmills china darling front
sales
strongly comb float jumped o’clock thus middle
tired
5.70 music burned freedom mistake
plenty prevent depending strip speaking united
chest enter fourteen rise seventy shirts crack
rabbit
turns
becoming stronger training wondering haven’t
sadly outlined billing
5.75 taxes trusting soda voice
charming seventh feather freely skate stays beam
friends marched calf farther clothing wonderful
rode
won’t
5.80
climb
expert
faint
gang gulf backward copy devote fellows keeper
sign
pushed treated careful
creek
duty grew worth film fisherman greatly speak
eighty
hail
happens steep Easter
5.85
subject
charged cashed drift expect aim fry cherry stops
teaches arch deed dirty reaches leather spit
root
5.90 carried built chicks detail
simple reason uncles closer deeds
draft
owned repair
rights
bringing
greater
household render fruit split carpet smoking unto
absent baking bottles busy fortnight
5.95 rolled whom darkness truth lazy
capture fifth proud justly skirt arithmetic odd
retire candle
Homophones:
it's/its which/witch arose/(a rose)
chants/chance cheap/cheep bases/basses/basis
does/Duz does/doze waited/weighted
sales/sails turns/terns rode/road/rowed
climb/clime faint/feint sign/sine
creek/creak hail/hale draft/draught
rights/writes/rites/Wright's greater/grater
Heteronyms:
records (v. ree KOH’r-dz)/records
(n. REK kurdz)
subject (n. SUB jekt)/subject
(v. sub JEK’t)
6.00 court frame movie married plus
while package
waste
finish title ashes
hoe
keen ordering reform
sore
roots shoot anger porch
seems
shells
6.05 value elect former thunder
chase starve froze departments numbered rip
settle risk
sees
6.10 canning informing bucket melted
blanket checking differ officer
steal
formed
missed
northwestern tight
berry
chat
hearts
muddy yell finest fresh trained
worn
deliver oxen candles horseback
6.15 devoted contract impart shouted
understood ladies manage gladly returned trim
background folks nineteen windy women knowing
camel nests rob
sight
handles lighted dim
prize
6.20 invented lightly
male
orange southern greatest chum native agent
lively replaced kept purple temple begin
stairs
weave offers visited
raised
swell mar
6.25
knows
tickets lambs sob catching lately recovered
steel
flood
meets
spread mob upstairs inasmuch bike bother
nevertheless shaped
leads
6.30 action pictures locate granted
idea branches clearly company
blew
button following invent retain forty fought
preach January
6.35 northern compose gained
offering lawns
prints
retreat strongest winning jaw moment pleasing
beard caused chain enough highly
owe
sudden swift namely turkey pudding sits stole
scare tests wage worm feeling (ice
cream)
6.40 nations hardware
solo
matters remaining radio tablet olive binding
mountain softly useful
pairs
learning perhaps sharpen Tuesday else painting
shake
visiting edge hiding
6.45
object
active during square bolt extra coffee crazy
mist
powerful poem watching closing tribes rim sends
answer dancing likely buildings
dairy
fears
marry
suffer
holy
Homophones:
while/wile/awhile waste/waist hoe/ho sore/soar
seems/seams sees/seas/seize missed/mist
sight/cite/site prize/pries male/mail
stares/stairs raised/razed knows/nose/no's
steel/steal/Stihl meets/meats/metes
blew/blue/bleu prints/prince owe/oh
solo/so low pairs/pears/pares mist/missed
marry/merry/Mary holy/wholly/holey
Heteronyms:
leads ("LEEDZ") -- opposite
of follows. When it is pronounced "LEDZ"
as in pencil leads, the difficulty factor is
higher.
object ("AHB jekt") -- that which
is aimed at or desired. When the word is
pronounced ("ub JEKT") meaning to disagree, the
difficulty factor is slightly higher.
6.50
golf
overcharge spears cheaper request
acts
couldn't filed pitch linger meanwhile slope
gain horses remember worse hooks pants
marble hasn't obey puff thirty ladder corner
writing
6.55 telephone
labor
seasons charging union glory goose rulers
membership mild cities hobby pleases
vain
plum
tale
hug lessons
lie
6.60 ideal favor priced counter
towel friendship hotels necks exchange knee
dealing polite airplanes guess bids sway returns
thereby throwing ought hunger
prince
hers
6.65 location skates degree bonds
natives provide
checks
ease
joint fearful graders chickens proven repeat
birth brains often seemed pending quilt
past
tracks
twelve deeply
finds
rabbits says
wear
6.70 located known treatment empty
kingdom boards flashlight gifts heaven kettle
standpoint suits bind hid silent
6.75 product question cement romance
flight babies coach cheering refund blessing
expose
sized level needless
pour
caught flour stating
whale
catches fade pa good-night
6.80 damage savage
dues
matches second
excuse
hopeful stuff touch apron latest ma shovel
we'll
grim tumble ugly link single speaker taste
newspapers
sacks
laughing thereon
6.85
present
cure duke informed mass banner
berries
carries
friendly vacation kicked programs seated
delightful dating samples spare
bowl
pulls upon grandma intend
paste
among
6.90 correct protect sharply defend
force watched animal blaze behalf sleepy betray
cheese frankly careless wondered
tied
juice queer
rolls
forward
6.95 drawn reduce serve victory limb
unit events patch downstairs grip quite saint
savings aren't lonesome shock weaving bloom
breakfast therein handled
good-bye
Homophones:
golf/gulf acts/ax/axe/ask
labor/labour (British spelling) writing/righting
lie/lye vain/vane/vein tale/tail
prince/prints ease/E's checks/cheques
past/passed tracks/tracts finds/fines
wear/ware/where pour/poor/pore
flour/flower whale/wail
dues/do's/dew's we'll/wheel sacks/sax
berries/buries/Bary’s carries/caries/Cary’s
bowl/boll paste/paced tied/tide rolls/roles
forward/foreword good-bye/good-by
7.00 illness advance animals delighted
passage
wound
youngest blown dawn checked serving gaining
impress elbow mountains meetings struck
latter
warn
tear
7.05 judge payable ironing fever
sweep accounting bacon frames shadow fancy guy
marbles smooth flesh grab I'd field fairly heaps
their
hereafter sleds
7.10 female offices
route
dealers
due
humble ordered rocky twist joined pleasure
cheerful mistakes scared herewith liking
merry
wouldn't Saturday lose
mamma
(sic)
7.15 cottage overdue owns factory
tomorrow plead code cried fled paid roar cock
heal
blackboard awaiting crew blush noble settled
skating
7.20 fond lonely chill corners
knot
pockets she's
7.25 section signed magic followed
quickly fund mittens reminded wicked feels
laughter spy
bare
shift desks afterwards
fourth
met apartment
7.30 improving pavement
harbor
human peanut clever cough figure flooded
weakness details honest mainly ribbon camels
heavy until village wearing addresses spoiled
heel
sled August kindest
7.35 coward steady studies motive
pretend crowd supply habit reply vice remote
stain turtle await monster shed cute ashamed
fairy
writer
7.40 congress
cell
freeze
slippers buttons dread
plains
presented
colored
oranges fried message
sells
causes fees mistaken fate pencil
blessed
gown grind
7.45 dealer advise blouse widow whip
afterward agreed peanuts placing questions
renewed hidden shooting thousands digging couple
forbid ideas refused relating arise sorts
visitor
you'll
tracer naming happened woman
Homophones:
latter/ladder tear/tier
root/route their/they're/there
lose/loose (lose rhymes with ooze and whose;
loose rhymes with goose and moose)
merry/marry/Mary knot/not
bare/bear/Bayer fourth/forth/4th
heel/heal/he'll fairy/ferry
cell/sell freeze/frees
sells/cells you'll/Yule/Ewell/Yul
Heteronyms:
wound ("WOUND") -- an injury.
When it's the past tense of wind ("WYND"),
it is pronounced "WOWND" to rhyme with
ground and its difficulty factor may be
lower.
tear -- ("TEER"). The
liquid coming from the eye. When it
means to rip ("TAYR") the difficulty factor
is higher.
7.50
conduct
obtain respect discovered finished funds
weight
adore
knock machine bleeding groups packages
parties
stare
follows handling explain sober chief
herd
warehouse faith buyer stockings
bows
months
7.55 population elected
false
student mock statements strain worship double
blankets bushel toward peep plums
7.60 election angle policeman aware
listen reasons shelter holds thread elephant
brushes
colors
allow seek thoughts gleam using picnic quack
fifteen
7.65 inspect artist comply shipping
information captured provided gasoline resort
unpaid vanish decay hadn't breaking habits
parent howling
pale
bundle chose thirteen moments leaf taught creep
7.70 scale collect carefully
improved closet prison circus contains fuel
problem sweetheart fruits tread
minds
socks
invoice chosen lists
7.75 important written carrier
problems begins hurried insure
perfect
really extent thrill bodies cloudy repairs
sweater grasshopper wages confine hugs wherever
shown
bore
Thursday evenings
too
7.80 punish rough escape contained
investment ruling providing tried repaired
healthy entered grasp amounts since venture
scold hoping thereof quiet
7.85 organ measure comfort hundreds
potatoes boiler complain excited mighty
suffering circle chances ditch monthly selfish
biggest
hire
border
lit
7.90 formal sparrow courts
settlement American compare chairman different
riddle therefore tour writers burst handsome
rating carrot slid chasing drown
aunts
saddle
writes
7.95 adventure
except
extend notion clipping nerve buggy famous murder
earned hired permit coasting stiff lodge rid
beauty folk tries
aloud
Homophones:
weight/wait adore/a door stare/stair
herd/heard colors/colours (British Spelling)
pale/pail minds/mines socks/sox bore/boar
too/to/two hire/higher aunts/ants/aunts
writes/rights except/accept aloud/allowed
Heteronyms:
conduct
-- ("KAHN dukt") meaning one's behavior.
If it is pronounced "kun DUKT" as in "to
conduct an orchestra" the difficulty factor
is slightly higher.
bows
-- ("BOHZ") as in, "bows and arrows" or
"ribbons and bows." When it means to
lower one's head ("BOWZ"), it rhymes with
cows and the difficulty factor is slightly
higher.
perfect
-- ("PUR fikt"). When it means to make
something the best it can be, it is
pronounced "pur FEKT" as in "to perfect a
routine."
8.00 actions mixture garment sentence
carrots
guest
amused gathering remains sorrow cries
misunderstanding
desert
gathered officers shoulder purse maiden
dew
overalls slept
minute
8.05 furnish motor rare shopping
curl royal useless attend slight decline loose
captain perform control poems knees banana
hereto stunts stout
8.10 signs terms expecting parents
seldom worried toil liberty beaten strike
swiftly answering crush needle wisdom amuse
remained stake bolts composed create
wears
8.15 public normal products storage
delayed salesman
clothes
model
break
propose average bloody bridge growth boast dwell
safely
sewed
angry
8.20 million motion
subjects
direct improvement requested guide remarkable
hiding stem begging flung though entering
reminds interest hungry
8.25 total protection created verse
climate defeat notation perfume although curve
finishing ownership admire enclose powder
based
chamber intended
chased
revised omit sailor scarf beads
rude
feelings pencils smiling holiday howl slender
8.30 depends pupil breast staff
wilderness delivered answers dispose rising
pennies quit rainy whereas
we've
interesting wherein
8.35 tractor students contact topic
discharge inviting lying wives compound canyon
fasten afraid hem kitty swept
8.40 equal expected factor term
exciting arrest borrow parade churches kitchen
gotten insects quarter restless forth husband
consent
8.45 invention central through
duties
presents
traveling
claim divided closely pocketbook troubles wrist
gentle monument
he'd
striking theater dried
Homophones:
carrots/carats/carets/karats
guest/guessed desert/dessert
dew/do/due loose/lose (loose
rhymes with goose and moose but lose rhymes
with news and whose stake/steak
wears/wares clothes/close
break/brake sewed/sowed
chased/chaste forth/fourth/4th
through/threw/"THRU" he'd/heed
Heteronyms:
desert
-- ("DEZ zurt"). When it means to abandon
it is pronounced "dee ZURT" and its difficulty
factor is higher because it becomes a homophone
with dessert.
minute -- ("MIN nit") as in, "just
a minute ago." When the word means
something extremely small, it is pronounced, "my
NOOT" and its difficulty level is much higher
despite its phonetic spelling.
presents -- ("PREZ zin-ss") as in
gifts are called presents which sounds exactly
like presence. When it means to show as in
"Channel 25 presents the news" it is pronounced
"pre ZEN-SS" and its difficulty factor is
higher.
8.50 local convention disposed
compared
soul
canal ideals property respond progress
doctors shouldn't troop advice scream
8.55 production simply poet values
declared swimming cousin foolish agents climbing
velvet eager ninth
8.60 shortage collection suitable
confess figured modern limit whereabouts offered
scrap confuse containing either empire scorn
speaks forests
heels
man's
8.65 conducted relation insult
suffered talent
rye
treasure broad dangerous mayor cabbage place
properly seeking
manner
divide giant govern planet
mood
palm
racing pumpkin regarding wit climbed engine
shining
8.70 reflect abroad final common
distance reduced several tough uniform bluff
excite needles collar worst doesn't
8.75 preparing president garage
restrain advised knocked provides result
stations explained mention solid insist damaged
notices prayer stern carpenter crept
8.80 area favors postal enclosed
abuse
minutes revenge dismiss Bible burnt replied nod
8.85 type published extending
including locating screamed install you've
greetings nicest served zebra polar costs
8.90 adventures
addition
period collected beyond prepare arrived jury
Negro suppose valued noticed shook signal
answered shoulders combine pity screen crawl
sash prepaid lining
8.95 correctly general obtained
addressing fountain promise suddenly accounts
lease plainly interested watermelon linen chores
valley
Homophones:
soul/sole/sol heels/heals
rye/wry manner/manor
mood/mooed palm/pom
addition/edition
Heteronyms:
abuse -- ("uh BYOOZ") to use
improperly as in "to abuse a
privilege." When the word is used as a
noun it rhymes with goose and is pronounced
"uh BYOO-SS" as in the phrase, child
abuse.
9.00 regular attending daughter entire
insured nerves service slavery dealings
visits boarding inventory passenger
buys
fleet
9.05 corrected republic rifle
appears thrown manufacture knives largely
tremble partner witness modest prepared tunnel
haste alley
9.10 consider sections complete
agreement detailed trial supplies repeated
themselves Christmas primary text pupils cheek
delivery laid ridge language papa that's
9.15 objection science enjoyable
garbage
alter
recent amusing
brake
expects novel clerks induce begged sweetest
stroke thumb altogether demands regards ample
boy's
9.20 relations feature produced
producing courage future inspection extended
managed ounce peaceful piano
reel
deaf
praise
English
9.25 completed clerk argue declare
contrast explains confined visitors
weigh
surely
truly
9.30 reduction consult musical
telegram countries surface avenue utter possible
thrust claimed quarters dreadful thrilling cliff
expressed flatter preacher prospect ourselves
requesting thoughtful butcher chalk weary
cousins
checkers
puzzle
9.35 statue battery plantation
publish require admired estate breeze addressed
calm utmost forenoon scarlet
verses
forwarded pace
contents
couch
fare
fed
9.40 comment junior unknown account
wealth continue engage touched swear childish
current fields
haul
submit refuge curtain disaster
drafts
proof barrel
sow
9.45 happier honor popular metal
balance plunge manager fitted
pause
distant entertain orchard forgotten throat
towards forwarding surprise weren't
Homophones:
buys/byes thrown/throne
alter/altar brake/break
reel/real praise/prays/preys
weigh/way/whey utter/udder
fare/fair haul/hall
metal/medal/meddle pause/paws
sow/sew/so/sol checkers/chequers
(British spelling) drafts/
draughts
(British spelling)
Heteronyms: contents
-- ("KAHN ten-ss") meaning ingredients as in
a table of contents. When it means to
satisfy as in: "He contents
himself with...", it is pronounced "kun
TEN-SS" and its difficulty factor is higher.
sow ("SOH") as in to sow
seeds. When it is pronounced "SOW" to
rhyme with cow, it means a female pig.
The difficulty factor of this word when it
means female pig could be considerably
lower, because it cannot be confused with
sew and so.
9.50 reputation landscape conversation
national
project
medical forced produce scatter refreshments
solve allowing device dispute happiest
enclosing fault prayers quietly maintain
replying view
supposed
onion lovingly promised steer laughed
underwear
9.55 direction example obtaining
suspect drama
loan
consisting admit castle desire item Wednesday
carols
madam
piece
stopped Thanksgiving what's dined
9.60 personal ruin Christ copies
regulation traffic furnished fetch salad
slippery debate hospital harness remembered
ankle regret evil (high school) sheds
9.65 appear informal vision faithful
measures merchant secure
we're
deposit loss consist
threw
gently mumps
waist
regard snowy oblige
9.70 inquire arrives costume
improvements manners lofty
sane
treaty unite blooming naked devil smallpox you'd
wonderfully theaters decide invoices strikes
idle
let's
9.75 directed correction loyal
objections princess represent slightly wholesale
throughout firecrackers promises machines
recently
winds
attack
freshman twenty-one
9.80 gym foundation tennis
dye
advising
profit
guilty incline campus figures purely review
traveler bothered cunning headquarters
9.85 government industry support
adjust results enemy acre command costumes
decorate gem pearl eighth garters
9.90 impressed preserve dumb
selection holidays selected aspect gentlemen
iodine grocery romantic surprised disposing
guard explaining
9.95 region presenting sentences
certain recess swallow elevator pattern remit
billed
Homophones:
loan/lone piece/peace
we're/were manners/manors
let's/lets gym/Jim
dye/die/Di pearl/purl
billed/build
threw/through/"THRU" waist/waste
throughout/threw out unite/you
knight idle/idol/idyll
wins/winds wines/winds
Heteronyms: project
-- ("PRAH jekt") as in a science project.
When it means to predict, it is pronounced "pro
JEKT" as in they used a computer to
project the outcome of the election.
supposed ("SUH POHZD") -- when
supposed is combined with to
it is very commonly misspelled as "sposta" even
though it is "supposed to"
be spelled with the -ed.
winds -- ("WIN-ZZ") as in the
winds blow. When it is a
circular motion, as in "a pitcher winds
up" it is pronounced "WYN-ZZ".
10.00 editor
increase
contracts
include wolves respects management valentine
rapid remainder geography folly how's
10.05 discovery difference violet
messages stir beautiful flies frighten curtains
beneath neighborhood rotten
10.10 collecting division favored
credit justice reserve canary chiefly electric
adopted youngster
breaks
10.15 importance respective avoid
fortune wealthy furnishing tardy choice
twenty-five neighbors toss forehead
10.20 education appointed energy
author pirate mission pickles
gaze
excepting
course
10.25 design district limited
release quoted fashion honesty hedge select
dispatch honestly canoe advises automobile
10.30 natural departure social
special dismissed prompt deserve encounter
advanced neighbor barrels sandwich awful whose
depth led
its
comfortable attached entrance canned pledge
multiply
10.35 violin believe compass finals
scarce silence borrowed gallop disturb bathe
pumpkins roommate
10.40 appointment condition required
adjustment proposed punishment rescue
transaction complying disgrace echo escaped
sparrows against parlor filing here's
10.45 attended arriving engaged
usual desires document attention combined
planning studied further entry canoes cropped
allowed
cellar
lily
sole
Indian
ha
Homophones:
breaks/brakes gaze/gays
course/coarse whose/who's
its/it's led/lead
here's/hears allowed/aloud
cellar/seller sole/soul/sol
Heteronyms: increase
-- ("in KREE-SS") as in to get larger. If
it is the amount that got larger, it is
pronounced "IN kree-ss".
contract -- ("kun TRAKT") means to
get smaller. Contract ("KAHN trakt") is a
legal agreement.
multiply -- ("MUL tuh plY") as in
to multiply 5 x 5. However, the word can
be an adjective ("MUL tuh plee") as in "multiply
handicapped." In this case, the word has a
much higher spelling difficulty factor.
10.50 transportation instruct system
reducing easily adopt pertaining prefer
tickled length series instant procure
shipped German
choose
knit
(post office)
father's
10.55 inclined items represents
yourselves private memory desired neglect
catalog moss dining
10.60 envy obliged creature claims
supplied
finally
voyage decided reverse library losing pieces
whisper penmanship potato
10.65 generation mineral embrace
concert perfectly included poetry practice
sprinkle
sword
exclaim safety blossoms seesaw
10.70 connect weapon dentist century
deduct lecture arrive increased interview
listening salesmen theme coupon intention
crowded seconded stoop listened one-half weekend
10.75 advantage prospects provision
appearing requires supervision reserved constant
proclaim views operating angels secret
merry-go-round nickels lading
10.80 attach burden efforts inspire
figuring injure reflection laundry furniture
search regarded ski grandma's according
telegraph custom increasing arranged
10.85 terrible directions carbon
merchants haunted quote janitor sandwiches armor
gentleman vow
10.90 employed deducted portion
colonies effort quoting speech installed
dictionary neither convince mercy studying
oversight angel blossom
10.95
humor
affect
firmly accident diamonds elsewhere transit meant
Homophones:
choose/chews knit/nit
sword/soared humor/humour (British)
armor/armour (British) affect/effect
Look-Alikes:
angel/angle affect/effect
11.00 mortal pardon fixtures
permission machinery
style
companion factories suggest colony owing
pirates entirely youngsters decorated infant
destroy acres sleeve mischief
alas
firm
11.05 observation observe attaching
depot adorable defective appeared directly
material patterns slipped judging streak
presently rendered bishop bananas requests
grandmother's nickel carrying
11.10 method satisfactory strict
continued submitting prevail corrections stupid
standard
11.15 humanity introduction exact
degrees senior introduce astonish buried volume
distress journey wander chimney
11.20 collections deduction arrange
discontinue ghost capable international worthy
rapidly vacant whistle nephew
11.25 issue issued includes
situation manufacturing transfer gloomy chapel
glitter guests stepped sought cruel independent
asks men's French sleeves
11.30 submitted citizen happiness
regardless happily unexpected ache element
envelope
straight
capital
ninety
11.35
appoint
resign lectures publishers applied affairs
approved deposited minister offend procured
vital faithfully bloomers destroyed satisfaction
dipped
lightning
dog's
girl's
11.40 contribute calves process
vanity accounting consisted governed paragraph
confederation ruined (Santa Claus) completing
guessed
sister's
11.45 instructed affair adjusted
director entertained realize consigned
representing confident frightened secured
umbrella
Homophones:
style/stile alas/(a lass)
asks(SUBSTANDARD)/ax/axe
straight/strait capital/capitol
appoint/(a point)
lightning/lightening
dog’s/dogs/dogs’ guessed/guest
girls/girl’s/girls’
sisters/sister’s/sisters’
11.50 photograph inquired sermon
minor
relative valentines violent
lettuce
11.55
favorable
width disagreeable doubt
dying
(per
cent)
automatic earliest concern divine diamond
celebrated soldier
shone
11.60 appeal materials creatures
naughty concluded freight mental jewel
foul
11.65 connection earlier mature
features credits
favorite
introduced salmon hence represented major fury
grandpa's
passed
uncle's
11.70 connected securing resolve
scene
developed
11.75 satisfied easier customs
gossip neglected
stationary
canvas
courses
wrap
wreck poison rooster
11.80 brief construct considering
federal families domestic
conflict
mistress farewell
bury
certainly barely enable intentions there's
11.85 medium suggestion justify
refer struggle designs operate mirror position
soldiers finance
accept
whirl scratch hither
11.90 equally complaint advertising
methods conviction indifferent inquiring lawyer
enforce exclaimed involved
pier
11.95 serious abstract entertainment
opera reliable amusement involve purpose
substance continues surround instantly believed
groan
Homophones:
minor/miner lettuce/let us
dying/dyeing shone/shown
foul/fowl passed/past
scene/seen canvas/canvass
wrap/rap pier/peer
there's/theirs bury/berry/Barry/Bary
accept/except groan/grown
favorable/favourable (British spelling)
favorite/favourite (British spelling)
Heteronyms: conflict
--("KAHN flikt") means a major disagreement, a
fight. When it is used as a verb meaning
to disagree with, it is pronounced: "kun
FLIKT".
12.00 conditions instructions citizens
services excess mentioned
afford
relief terror messenger semester explanation
rejoice
peer
toilet receive
weighed
12.05 construction liquid engagement
caution operated difficult legal tobacco
mode
12.10 approve admitted attempt
commands directors uncertain
avail
manual beginning
12.15 instruction ability carnival
funeral positive reasonable pleasant rival one's
so-called
12.20 advantages graduation balances
dreadfully conquer spirits profitable quotation
headache impossible contrary deposits horrible
priest image
12.25 valuable failure conclude
concerning operation exceed generous accidents
bobbed grief (scarlet fever) breathe
12.30 knowledge business assist
employ respectable charity declaration customer
error describe entitle threaten drowned
cranberries
12.35 policy banquet discontinued
rarely affection justified salute signature data
entertaining moderate permitted progressive
strictly discuss hesitate handkerchief farmer's
12.40 actual publication insurance
respectfully pronounce proceed quotations
medicine observed dramatic proportion heretofore
12.45 apply territory assembly
considered stomach cabinet height
honored
spirit misery fifteenth bookkeeping
Homophones:
afford/a Ford peer/pier
weighed/wade mode/mowed
avail/a veil/a vale
error/air/heir/e'er honored
(American spelling)/honoured (British
spelling)
Look-Alikes:
manual/Manuel insurance/assurance
proceed/precede
12.50 establish reception quality
religion combination opposite historical
civic debt furnace republican suggested
whence bracelet prettiest trimmed channel
planned interests
12.55 attractive destination
industrial moral unsatisfactory advertised
prisoner endure balanced valuation exception
magazine commander year's
12.60 expression
accord
distribute various celebrate consideration
confusion encourage engineer concerned engineers
vegetable treasurer research neighboring earnest
12.65
assure
affected applies compelled harmony register
patient success skinned welfare argument
12.70 expectation educational
imagine liberal operations arranging errors
practicing belief patent envelopes budget
independence
12.75 disposition usually notify
missionary particular suggesting
bored
quarrel supplying furthermore
12.80 assured estimate admission
occupied probably cultivate extensive employment
positions cashier convinced splendid reckless
vice-president purchases
12.85
effects
accepted blizzard midst performance today's
indicate
12.90 crediting notified assemble
arrangement source acid impulse companies
poverty confirm crediting notified assemble
arrangement source acid impulse companies
poverty confirm
12.95 commerce surrounded constantly
decorations established
vary
fairies Halloween
catalogs
commerce surrounded constantly decorations
established
Homophones:
effects/affects bored/board
very/vary ferries/fairies
affected/effected
catalogs/catalogues
Look-Alikes:
moral/mortal historical/hysterical
patient/patent moral/morel
13.00 expensive considerable districts
exceptions
effect
influence practical omitted
13.05 urge sincere possibly activity
purchase parcel reality issues icy reindeer
13.10 occupation described marriage
unusual complains doubtful horror decent tonsils
hearty
you're
cutest
13.15 frequent assignment electrical
concerns curious colleges excitement league
equipment probable scenes hasten servant
mother's
13.20 attain organized memories
reckon entitled Latin political received awfully
eternal formerly refers bargain contemplate
13.25 rural comments governor
visible agency presume senator composition
describing supreme vegetables typewriter shield
straighten autumn
aunt's
13.30 civil conclusion doubtless
instrument violence furious
cedar
vigor invitation sketch (chicken pox) niece
teacher's
13.35 confirming disease
investigation (fountain pen)
sleigh
speeches
13.40 impression experiment
magazines assortment cancel instance development
succeed
13.45 percentage approach poultry
bonus graduated electricity expense commit
customers obligation opposed proceeds grateful
friend's
stretch tailor alfalfa February bearing
Homophones:
effect/affect horror/whore/hoar
you're/your/yore
aunt's/ant's/aunts/aunts'/ants (DIALECT
DEPENDENT HOMOPHONES)
hearty/hardy sleigh/slay
tailor/Taylor bearing/baring
Look-Alikes:
omitted/emitted
13.50 ambition realized structure
manufacturer commence personality graduating
requirements continent renewal believing
13.55 agreeable strength severe
excellent cease
13.60 liable cooperate attempting
additional organize groceries consists
13.65 accomplish original muscle
connections nervous response enemies aviator
feeble anxious advisable assisting mystery
situated balloon hatred perish
13.70 democratic interior assigned
sense
anchor briefly instructor saucers kindergarten
mere handkerchiefs
day's
13.75 requirement purposes concrete
carriage completion auntie seriously warrior
conference exercise
13.80 revolution literary senate
confidence opinion sheer suggestions utterly
abandon children's
13.85 dividend inclusive exactly
regularly terribly community proposition vacancy
security article disgusted
13.90 delicate college difficulty
credited military yield promptly reverence
sincerely develop separated
13.95 announce accordingly salary
pressure summon exclusive revenue absence compel
Homophones:
perish/parish
days/day's/days'/daze
salary/celery auntie/ante/anti
sheer/shear discussed/disgust
14.00 indicates luncheon locality
publications reference scenery calendar
relieve democrat
14.05 indicating amusements
accomplished actually solution indicated
favorably ceiling arrangements treasury
deliveries beggar jobbers jealous pilgrims
14.10 diameter accuse generally
previous despise museum merits
whether
coarse
bicycle
14.15 gradually estimated allowance
arrival examination emergency investigate
principal
secretary athletics journal particulars victim
applying
14.20 purchased accompany
destruction
defense
personally
14.25
assign
phrase expedition criminal absolute politics
dignity mansion bestow chocolate loyalty
14.30 circulation beautifully gross
receives decidedly tongue amendment
(all right)
14.35 occupy resolution naturally
inability session establishment responsible
society experience reasonably ornament trifle
capitol
14.40 attempted temperature assuming
certified proceedings ordinary university
desperate examinations merit (parcel post)
receiver
faults
elapsed
14.45 completely assuring function
odor subscription column numerous remedy sacred
editorial unpleasant expenses merely cocoon
receiving
Homophones:
calendar/calender
Democrat/democrat
ceiling/sealing whether/weather
coarse/course/corse phrase/frays
capital/capitol faults/false
defense (American spelling)/defence (British
spelling)
assign/a sign all right/“alright” (sic)
14.50 announced readily economic
genuine inhabitant tremendous
separate
boys'
14.55 circular superior attendance
constitution evidence purchasing frequently
gracious opposition policies cooperation
canceling
14.60 orchestra audience premium
ancient honorable
choir
effective evident nonsense articles marvelous
14.65 satisfy compensation removal
relieved disappear corporation conceal boundary
peasant woman's squirrel hitherto
14.70 examine glorious admiration
opinions successful discussion
14.75 desirable considerably
disappeared literature superintendent sheriff
locally earnestly
14.80 authorized assumed quantity
existing triumph fierce discussed interval
14.85 magnificent majesty scarcely
chemistry difficulties profession preparation
scientific
14.90
basis
career residence description demonstration
registered foreign precious
14.95 democracy evidently fatal
procession Negroes pigeon
Homophones:
boys'/boys/boy's/buoys/buoys'/buoy's
(DIALECT DEPENDENT) choir/quire
effective/affective basis/bases
residence/residents
discussed/disgust
Heteronyms:
separate -- ("SEP uh rit" or "SEP
rit") is an adjective meaning "not together" as
in separate rooms. When it is used as a
verb meaning "to set or keep apart" as in to
separate the two children, it is
pronounced "sep uh RAYT".
15.00 authorize activities deny
cathedral
15.05 compliments apparently
examined heavily promptness permanent
15.10 qualities especially specified
disappointed prosperous steadily paradise
exercises urgent execute variety
15.15 auditorium majority religious
accurate professor occur occasions seize
organization multitude imagined candidate
they're
15.20 gymnasium sacrifice persuaded
attitude universal skiing survey
15.25 theory employee extreme
agriculture publicity application congratulate
accepting publicity application congratulate
abundant instances chorus benefits shepherds
15.30 obvious resistance determine
enormous obligations previously disappointment
respectively accordance oppose edition tradition
engineering
girls'
refrigerator intervals manufacturers
15.35 atmosphere exceedingly
unfortunate interfere continually sensible
acceptable inspiration mourn succeeded deem
15.40
duplicate
comparison convey certificate ignorant Christian
15.45 assume applications fortunate
brilliant assistant officials challenge
references benefit
Homophones:
compliments/complements
seize/sees/seas/C's
they're/there/their
accepting/excepting mourn/morn
paradise/pair of dice
edition/addition
Heteronyms: duplicate
-- when it is used as an adjective as in
"duplicate copies" it is pronounced "DOO pluh
kit." When it is used as a verb as in "to
duplicate something", it is
pronounced, "Doo pluh KAYT."
Look-Alikes:
convey/convoy attitude/altitude
respectively/respectfully
15.50 sentiment announcement
eventually
flu
institute character grammar passion
descriptive persuade
15.55 communities appreciate
inferior substitute positively preference
15.60 spiritual appearance
assurance
decision compliance exist enclosure
15.65 organizations disappoint
guardian inquiry maturity administration
registration immortal annual regretting
council
altar
15.70 mysterious circumstances
delicious deceive canceled communicate grieve
successfully liquor murmur
15.75 institution unusually
commercial
heir
commission businesses 'tis
15.80 attendant physical
advertisement specify instinct
patience
civilization ceased
15.85 approval circulars
distribution exhibit referring scholarship
similar
apparent
accustom merchandise straightened pigeons
15.90
15.95 ignorance elaborate
probability materially temporary ambassador
Homophones:
sentiment/sediment flu/flew/flue
assurance/insurance altar/alter
council/counsel immortal/immoral
heir/air/Eire/e'er
patience/patients apparent/a
parent
Tricky Words:.
assurance/insurance
16.00 occasion
incident
encouraging appetite
16.05 illustrated determined
appreciated particularly imagination official
columns intelligent
16.10 acknowledge referred
exceptional communication authority cafeteria
economy available congratulations executed
16.15 illustrate characters
presence
bouquet sympathy economics
judgment
pursue
16.20 genius necessary opportunity
quantities innocent interrupt distinct
remittance definition
veil
itemized
16.25
assistance
faculty legislation liability glimpse
compliment
tournament alligators
16.30
vein
accompanied mutual eliminate bosom skis
16.35 possibility succession pursuit
qualified
16.40 extension
wholly
applicant preliminary bulletin committed despair
16.45 appreciation affectionate
association experienced commendation
illustration adjourned employees
delegate
debtor prior
Homophones:
incident/accident
presence/presents judgment (Am.
spelling)/judgement (British spelling)
veil/vale assistance/assistants
compliment/complement
vein/vain/vane
wholly/holy/holely mutual/mutuel
(as in pari-mutuel)
succession/secession
Heteronyms:
delegate -- When it means a
person who has been elected or appointed to
represent a group, delegate is
pronounced "DEL uh git." But when
delegate is used as a verb meaning "to
authorize or transmit power", then
delegate is pronounced "DEL uh GAYT."
16.50 multiplication institutions
luxury gratitude statistics
16.55 recognize occasional
circumstance substituted extremely patronage
associate
16.60 responsibility vicinity
mechanical certificates individual
bough
doctrine petition
16.65 commencement
offense
voucher
16.70 associated acceptance scheme
laboratory distinguish mathematics prominent
16.75 courtesy
principle
vacancies distinction remembrance
reign
embroidery
16.80 preferred galvanized tendency
occurs vague supplement foliage
16.85 illustrations professional
capacity committee
16.90 leisure transferred
consequently heartily
duly
16.95 scissors artificial utilize
croquet wrought perceive
Heteronyms:
associate -- When it means a
person, it is pronounced, "uh SOH see it",
but when it means "to be with or go around
with" associate is pronounced
"uh SOH see AYT."
offense — When it means "a
crime," offense is pronounced "uh FEN-SS."
When offense means the
opposite of defense, it is pronounced "AW
fen-SS"
Homophones:
bough/bow principle/principal
reign/rein/rain duly/Dooley
courtesy/curtsy/curtsey
Tricky Words:
laboratory/lavatory One can labor (work)
in a laboratory. One can use Lava soap in
a lavatory.
17.00 representative immediate
correspond exhaust enthusiastic separately
specific extraordinary confirmation license
agricultural
17.05 legislature specification
exceptionally
intimate
17.10 minimum peculiar statues
17.15 acknowledged recommended
17.20 attorney conceive
principles
intelligence
schedule
acquire
curiosity fraternity controversy
17.25 familiar definite warrant
17.30 icicles tragedy conception
company's
17.35 recognition consequence
excessive installation distinguished eligible
17.40 physician corresponding crisis
17.45 absolutely initial
recommending colonel possess inquiries peril
(whooping cough) precisely
Homophones:
company's/companies/companies'
colonel/kernel
principles/principals/principal's/principals'
acquire/a choir/a quire
Heteronyms:
intimate -- is pronounced "IN tuh
mit" when used as an adjective indicating a
close relationship. When intimate is used
as a verb meaning "to hint at," then it is
pronounced "in tuh MAYT."
Look-Alikes:
statues/statutes
17.50 recognized exhausted competition
practically financial condemn
17.55 representatives necessity
competent accustomed
17.60 receipt acknowledging
attorneys campaign dormitory
17.65 distinctly pamphlets executive
memorandum exhibition partial flourish occurred
17.70 originally achievement
correspondence bureau cordially continuous
inevitable
17.75 correspondent authorities
commissioner stationery unfortunately
fortunately opportunities descend pamphlet
17.80
17.85 occasionally cancellation
immense
17.90 courteous hygiene indebtedness
circuit operetta
17.95 possession receipts
undoubtedly
18.00 committees recommend solemn
18.05 consequences cylinder wretched
18.10 essential ordinarily virtue
sufficient epistle
18.15 immediately facilities
characteristic confidential
18.20 inconvenience recommendation
comparatively apology thorough
18.25 approximate anticipate
indefinite pageant sorority
18.30
acquaint
satisfactorily acquainted unanimous
18.35 unnecessary convenient
equipped convenience suspicion
18.40 scheduled canvass ascertain
18.45 exquisite temporarily
remittances anticipation
HOMOPHONES:
canvass/canvas
correspondence/correspondents
Look-Alikes:
thorough/through descend/descent/decent
18.50 acknowledgment efficient
aisles
18.55 affectionately analysis
18.60 conscience bankruptcy endeavor
18.65 existence necessarily esteemed
counsel
18.70 desirous definitely thoroughly
mortgage
18.75
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anxiety philosophy countenance
18.85 initiation fascinating
ridiculous
18.90 adequate parliament
intellectual privilege
18.95
19.00 politician enthusiasm
inconvenience restaurant
19.05
19.10 substantial guarantee
acquaintance incidentally ma’am
19.15
19.20
19.25
19.30 collateral approximately
discipline
19.35
19.40 criticism accommodation
lieutenant affidavit Chautauqua
19.45
19.50 endeavoring requisition
conscious guaranteed
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19.80 efficiency indefinitely
19.90
20.10 psychology
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Look-Alikes:
conscious/conscience