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Homophoines, homographs Flashcards

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air

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heir

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aisle

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isle : an island or peninsula, especially a small one.

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allowed

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aloud

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altar

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alter

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ate

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eight

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bail

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bale : bundle

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ball

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bawl : shout or call out

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bare

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bear

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beach

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beech : a large tree with smooth grey bark, glossy leaves, and hard, pale fine-grained timber.

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bean

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been

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beat

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beet : beetroot

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bell

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belle

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berth : docking site

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birth

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blew

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blue

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boar

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bore

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board

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bored

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bough

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bow

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blew

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blue

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boar

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bore

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board

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bored

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bough : main branch of the tree

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bow

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boy

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buoy : guiding marker

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brake

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break

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buy

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by/bye

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ceiling

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sealing

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cell

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sell

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cent

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sent/scent

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cereal

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serial

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cheap

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cheep

: chirp

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check

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cheque

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coarse

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course

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core

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corps : unit

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council

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counsel

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crews

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cruise

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current

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currant

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dear

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deer

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dew

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due

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die

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dye

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doe

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dough

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draft

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draught : current of air

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earn

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urn

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ewe

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you

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faint

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feint : a deceptive or pretended blow, thrust, or other movement, especially in boxing or fencing

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fair

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fare

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feat : acheivement

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feet

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find

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fined

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fir : an evergreen coniferous tree with upright cones and flat needle-shaped leaves,

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fur

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flea

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flee

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flew

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flu

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flour

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flower

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fore

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four

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foul

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fowl

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gait : a person’s manner of walking

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gate

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gilt : covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint

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guilt

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grate : shredding

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great

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groan

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grown

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hail : pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

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hale : healthy

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hair

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hare

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hall

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haul : drag

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hall

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haul : drag

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heal

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heel

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hear

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here

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heard

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herd

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heart

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hart : male deer

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higher

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hire

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him

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hymn

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hoard

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horde : a group of people

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hole

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whole

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holy

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wholly : complete

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hour

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our

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idle

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idol

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key

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quay

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knead

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need

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knew

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new

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knight

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night

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knot

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not

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knows

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nose

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lain

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lane

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lead

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led

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leak

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leek

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lessen

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lesson

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loan

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lone : single

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loot :
noun
private property taken from an enemy in war.
“the rooms were stuffed with the loot from Francis’s expeditions into Italy”
verb
steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot.
“desperate residents looted shops for food and water”

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lute : string instrument ( pear shaped)

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made

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maid

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mail

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male

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main

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mane

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mantel :

The meaning of MANTEL is a beam, stone, or arch serving as a lintel to support the masonry above a fireplace.

lintel : A lintel is a structural horizontal support ( rectangle) used to span
(the full extent of something from end to end; the amount of space that something covers) an opening in a wall or between two vertical supports.

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mantle : cloak , cape

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meat

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meet

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medal

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meddle

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missed

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mist

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muscle

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mussel

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none

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nun

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oar : a pole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water.

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ore

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one

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won

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pail

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pale

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pain

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pane : sheet of glass , glass

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pair

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pear/ pare

pare : trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges.

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pause

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paws

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peace

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piece

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peal :

a loud ringing of a bell or bells.
“the bell rang again, a long, loud peal”

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peel

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peer

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pier : dock

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place

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plaice :

a North Atlantic flatfish

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plain

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plane

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plum

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plumb :
measure (the depth of a body of water).
“I plumbed the depth and found the bottom of the shelf to be seven metres down”

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pore

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pour

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practice

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practise

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pray

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prey

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praise

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prays

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principle

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principal

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profit

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prophet

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rain

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rein/reign

rein : a long, narrow strap attached at one end to a horse’s bit, typically used in pairs to guide or check a horse in riding or driving.

he reined in his horse and waited

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raise

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rays /raze

raze : demolish

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rap

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wrap

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read

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reed : a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.

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right

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rite / write

rite : ritual

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ring

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wring : squeeze

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road

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rode

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role

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roll

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root

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route

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rose

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rows

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rye : a cereal plant that tolerates poor soils and low temperatures.

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wry : scoff meaning

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sale

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sail

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scene

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seen

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sea

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see

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seam

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seem

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sew

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sow

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sight

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site

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soar

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sore

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sole

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soul

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son

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sun

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soot

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suit

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stair

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stare

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stake : pole , shares

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steak

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stationary

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stationery

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steal

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steel

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stile : an arrangement of steps that allows people but not animals to climb over a fence or wall.

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style

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suite

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sweet

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tail

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tale

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tares : a type of plant

a vetch : a widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family, which is cultivated as a silage or fodder crop.

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tears

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taught

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taut : tight

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tea

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tee

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tear

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tier

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team

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teem : be full of

143
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their

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there

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threw

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through

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throne

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thrown

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tide

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tied

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tire

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tyre

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to

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two/too

149
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told

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tolled :

bell began to ring out

charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road).

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vain

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vane/ vein

vane : a broad blade attached to a rotating axis or wheel which pushes or is pushed by wind or water and forms part of a machine or device such as a windmill, propeller, or turbine.

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vale : valley

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veil

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waist

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waste

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wait

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weight

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weak

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week

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wood

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would

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yoke : harness

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yolk

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