Homophones Flashcards

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Already

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She has already graduated

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All ready

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Are you All Ready

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Adrenaline

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Singing gives me an adrenaline rush

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Adrenalin

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A prescription

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Effect

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The result of something

Verb effect

The effect was very eye popping

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Affect

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To produce a change in something

A Very easy noun

The arrows affected aardvark

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Alumna

Alumnae

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Alumna-female graduate

Alumnae- a group of female graduates

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Alumnus

Alumni

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Alumnus- male graduate

Alumni- group of male graduates

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Altogether

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Overall, completely,

Altogether, not a bad days work (All and all)

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All together

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Everyone or everything together

It’s time to sing all together now

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Aggravate

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To make something worse

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Irritate

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To annoy

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Adze

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A cutting tool that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the handle
and is chiefly used for shaping wood

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Diffuse

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Spread out over a large space not concentrated in one area being at once verbose and Ill organized

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Defuse

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To make something less serious difficult or tense

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Discrete

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Separate and different from each other

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Discreet

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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.

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Immigrant

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A person who comes to the country to live to take up permanent residence

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Emigrant

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A person who leaves a country or region to live in another one a person who emigrates

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Immigrate

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To come to a country to live there

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Emigrate

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To leave a country or region to live elsewhere

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Disinterested

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Not influenced by personal feelings opinions or concerns

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Uninterested

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Not wanting to learn more about something or become involved in something

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Reek

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Vapor frog strong or disagreeable fume or order to have a very strong and unpleasant smell

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Wreak
To cause something very harmful or damaging bring about cause to give free play or course to
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Rote
A fixed habitual or mechanical course of living "the rote of daily living"
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Sacks
Plural of sack a usually rectangular shaped bag
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Sacs
Plural of sac a pouch within an animal or plant often containing a fluid or air
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Saks
A shortened name for an upscale department store
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Teem
To become filled to overflowing abound to be present in large quantity empty pour
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Cel
A transparent sheet of celluloid on which objects are drawn or painted in the making of animated cartoons short for celluloid
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Teas
Plural for tea
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Tease
To laugh and criticize in a way that is either friendly and playful or cruel and unkind
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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
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hairy
Covered with hair or hair like material
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Harry
A male given name
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harry
To harass annoy or prove a nuisance
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Guys
Plural of guy rope chain rod or wire attached to something as a brace or a guide
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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
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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.
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Ensure
To secure or guarantee
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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.
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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.