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Aloud/allowed

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Out loud/permitted

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Affected/effected

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Influenced or touched by/achieve something (cause it to happen)

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All ways/always

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Many ways/at all times

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Based/baste

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As foundation/pour juice or fat over meat to keep it moist

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Bow/beau

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Knot with two loops/person’s boyfriend or male admirer

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Bow/bough

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Arrow or sign of respect/main branch of a tree

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Brake/break

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Slowing or stopping car/pause or separate into pieces

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Buoy/boy

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Anchored float/guy

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Cache/cash

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Collection of items (in a hidden place)/money

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Cannon/canon

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Artillery used in warfare/rule for judged or collection of sacred books

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Capital/capitol

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Important city or wealth in money/building where a state legislative body meets

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Carat/carrot/caret/karat

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Unity of weight of precious stones/orange vegetable/mark placed below line to indicate a proposed insertion/ mesure of purity of gold

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Chord/cord/cored

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Simultaneous sounding of more that 3 instruments/thin rope or thick string/remove central part or seeds

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Chute/shoot

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Steep channel to slide down/kill with a missile from a weapon

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Complacent/complaisent

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Self-satisfied/willing to please

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Complement/compliment

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Something that completes/expression of praise

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Coolie/coulee

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Old-fashioned, unskilled laborer/deep ravine, lava flow

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Coral/choral

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Formed from skeletonized sea animals/choir

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Creak/creek

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Harsh squeaking sound/narrow bay

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Cygnet/signet

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Young swan/small seal (with signature) for authentication

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Dam/damn

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Barrier across river to create a lake/exclamation of annoyance

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Defused/diffused

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Remove tension or fuse to prevent explosion/spread in all directions

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Disburse/disperse

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To pay out/spread or distribute

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Discreet/discrete

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Careful or circumspect in one’s speech and actions/separated or divided

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Doze/does
Sleep lightly/female deer
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Dyeing/dying
Add a color to/death
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Earn/urn
Obtain in return for services/vase for storing a cremated person’s ashes
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Elicit/illicit
Evoke or draw out/forbidden by law
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Ewe/you/yew
Female sheep/refer to a person (speaker is addressing)/a coniferous tree with poisonous red berrylike fruits
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Exceed/accede
Greater in number or go beyond (be better than)/agree to a demand or assume position
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Except/accept
Not including/consent to receive
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Feat/feet
Achievement that requires great courage,skill,strength/lower extremity (below ankle) used to walk
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Fete/fate
Lavish, often outdoors, entertainment/development of events beyond control (destiny)
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Fisher/fissure
Person who catches fish/long narrow opening (splitting)
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Flu/flue/flew
Short for influenza (viral infection)/duct for smoke & waste gases/fly (more through air using wings)
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Fowl/foul
A bird kept for eggs or flesh/offensive to senses (disgusting smell)
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Franc/frank
Basic monetary unit (Switzerland)/honest and direct in speech or writing
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Frees/freeze/frieze
Release from captivity/turn into ice or fixed state/broad horizontal band (sculpted decoration)
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Fryer/friar
Large, deep container for frying food/member of any certain religious orders
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Fur/fir
Hair of certain animals/evergreen coniferous tree (upright cones+flat needled)
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Gate/gait
Hinged barrier (close opening in wall)/person’s manner of walking
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Gorilla/guerilla
Powerfully built ape/ member in a small independent group (irregular fighting)
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Guild/gild
Medieval association of craftsmen/to coat with gold
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Hangar/hanger
Large building with extensive floor area/person who hangs something (hook)
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Hoard/horde
Stock or store of money (valued object that is carefully guarded)/large group of people
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Horse/hoarse
Plant-eating domesticated mammal/voice sounding rough or harsh
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Isle/I’ll/aisle
Island or peninsula/contraction of “I will”/passage between rows of seats
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Knight/night
Served lord as mounted soldier in armor/period of darkness from sunset to sunrise
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Ladder/latter
Structure series of bars for climbing/nearer the end or second option
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Leach/leech
Drain away from soil (percolating liquid)/aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm
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Leak/leek
Accidentally lose contents through hole/plant related to union (elongated bulb that’s a vegetable)
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Liar/lier/lyre
Tells lies/one that lies (as in ambush)/stringed instrument (small U-shaped harp)
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Manner/manor
Way something is done/large country house with lands
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Principal/principle
First in importance (example: director)/fundamental truth as a system of belief
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Sighted/cited/sided
Ability to see/finding a quote as evidence or a praise/having sides of specified number
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Skull/scull
Skeleton of the head/pair of small oars used by a single rower
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Soar/sore
Fly or rise high in the air/painful or aching
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Threw/through
Propel through the air/one side out to the other side
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Vice/vise
Immoral or wicked behavior/metal tool with movable jaws to hold an object in place
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Waist/waste
Below ribs and above hips/used carelessly
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Wales/whales/wails
Ridge on textured woven fabric/very large marine mammal/prolongated high-pitched cries of pain
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Witch/which
Woman wearing black with magic powers/asking a specification of on or more people
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Write/right/rite
Mark on a surface with a pen/morally good or opposite of left/religious solemn ceremony

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