Homophones Flashcards
Already
She has already graduated
All ready
Are you All Ready
Adrenaline
Singing gives me an adrenaline rush
Adrenalin
A prescription
Effect
The result of something
Verb effect
The effect was very eye popping
Affect
To produce a change in something
A Very easy noun
The arrows affected aardvark
Alumna
Alumnae
Alumna-female graduate
Alumnae- a group of female graduates
Alumnus
Alumni
Alumnus- male graduate
Alumni- group of male graduates
Altogether
Overall, completely,
Altogether, not a bad days work (All and all)
All together
Everyone or everything together
It’s time to sing all together now
Aggravate
To make something worse
Irritate
To annoy
Adze
A cutting tool that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the handle
and is chiefly used for shaping wood
Diffuse
Spread out over a large space not concentrated in one area being at once verbose and Ill organized
Defuse
To make something less serious difficult or tense
Discrete
Separate and different from each other
Discreet
Not likely to be seen or noticed by many people
judicious in one’s conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
Immigrant
A person who comes to the country to live to take up permanent residence
Emigrant
A person who leaves a country or region to live in another one a person who emigrates
Immigrate
To come to a country to live there
Emigrate
To leave a country or region to live elsewhere
Disinterested
Not influenced by personal feelings opinions or concerns
Uninterested
Not wanting to learn more about something or become involved in something
Reek
Vapor frog strong or disagreeable fume or order to have a very strong and unpleasant smell
Wreak
To cause something very harmful or damaging bring about cause to give free play or course to
Rote
A fixed habitual or mechanical course of living “the rote of daily living”
Sacks
Plural of sack a usually rectangular shaped bag
Sacs
Plural of sac a pouch within an animal or plant often containing a fluid or air
Saks
A shortened name for an upscale department store
Teem
To become filled to overflowing abound to be present in large quantity empty pour
Cel
A transparent sheet of celluloid on which objects are drawn or painted in the making of animated cartoons short for celluloid
Teas
Plural for tea
Tease
To laugh and criticize in a way that is either friendly and playful or cruel and unkind
Tees
Plearle of Tee the letter T something shaped like a T a mark aimed at in various games small mound or peg on which golf ball is placed
hairy
Covered with hair or hair like material
Harry
A male given name
harry
To harass annoy or prove a nuisance
Guys
Plural of guy
rope chain rod or wire attached to something as a brace or a guide
Guise
One of several or many different ways in which something is seen and experienced or produced a way of seeing or looking that is not true or real a form or style of dress costume external appearance semblance pretext
Census
an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
(in ancient Rome) the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.
Ensure
To secure or guarantee
Insure
to guarantee against loss or harm.
to secure indemnity to or on, in case of loss, damage, or death.
to issue or procure an insurance policy on or for.
Serf
a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord’s land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
a slave.
