Homophones | Words That Usually Confuse | Homonyms |

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Write

You were right in your guess.

Can you write your name on the piece of paper?

Meet

Meet means to interact in some way

Meat is the flesh of an animal

They meet Aradhya daily in their dance class.

She does not eat any meat.

Flower

Flour is fine powder of grains.

Flower is a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms.

Would you mind mixing the flour with two eggs?

There are many types of flowers available in my garden.

Coarse

Coarse means rough.

My outfit was made of coarse fabric.

I have decided to enroll on computer course .

Serial

Serial means sequential

He gave me a bowl of cereals.

They wrote serial numbers on the topics.

Site

Site is a piece of land

She cited a passage from president’s speech.

I have visited the construction site .

Buy

By

Buy  means to get something by paying money

By means beside, very near

I bought a coffee for my Mother from the café.

I knew that she would come and sit by me

Brake

Break means to crack

Brake is a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

She broke her neck.

I immediately applied the brake when he fell before my bike.

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Cellar

Seller means a vendor

Cellar is a closed space used for storage

Alia is a book seller.

She went to the cellar in order to dilute the beer.

Board

Board is a thin piece of wood.

Men in the shopping complex usually get bored with their wives.

I have written something on the whiteboard.

Aloud

Aloud mean loudly

I allowed him to go there with his teacher

She read the entire paragraph aloud.

Alter

Altar is a religious structure or place on which gifts to a god are made

Alter- to make changes

The bride approached the altar.

We have altered our plans for the upcoming vacations.

Aisle

Ail means to be unwell

Aisle is a long narrow passage

Our planet is ailing.

It was extremely difficult to go through the aisle in the plane.

Air

Heir

Air is mixture of gases

Heir is one who receives an ancestral property

I can breathe the fresh air.

He is lawful heir of his mother’s property.

Arms

Alms is money contributed to the poor

Arms are body part or weapons considered collectively

He was given alms by the rich.

Her arms are long .

Vain

Vain means fruitless

Align your finger in the direction of veins.

All the efforts of the government to go in vain.

Bald

Bold

Bald means lacking hair on all or most of the scalp

Bold means fearless and daring

I hope i don’t go bald like my father.

She is as bold as her father.

Birth

Berth

Birth is a process of being born

Berth is a place for sleeping in the train or ship

The baby weighted 3 kilos at the time of its birth.

We were allotted upper berths by railways for our journey.

Bridle

Bridal is Related to bride

Bridle is a strap put on animal’s head for controlling.

She paid twenty-thousands only for her bridal make-up.

I bought a new bridle for my horse Trio.

Chilly

Chili is a very hot and finely tapering pepper

Chilly means too cold to be comfortable

Give me a packet of chilly powder.

It’s usually a chilly morning especially in winters.

Urn

Urn is a kind of special container

Ode to a Grecian Urn is one of my favourite poems.

Phial

Phial is a small cylindrical bottles

A phial  of  blood  is broken

Fined

Fined- clarify

He was fined for driving rashly.

Heart

Heart is a body’s organ

She is a patient of heart .

Him

Him is a pronoun of male

Hymn is a religious songs

They often  praised him

Horde

Horde means crowd

We were beset by a horde of street vendors .

Wholly

Wholly means completely

We can’t please everyone wholly.

Insight

Clear perception of a situation

He had an insight into human nature.

Lone

Lone means  alone

I am a lone swimmer of this pool.

One

One is a cardinal number

I got one out of three stars.

Witch

Witch means female wizard

Ram started talking about witches .

Wear

Wear means to be dressed in

I like to wear skirts in parties.

Whether

Whether is a conjunction

We are hoping for good weather tomorrow.

Ram didn’t know whether Shalu would come or not.

Week

Week is a period of 7 days

There is no chance of meeting him next week.

Waste

Waste means of no importance.

He wasted four sheets in the godown.

Two

Too means in addition to

Two is cardinal number

I have two cycles of the same colour.

Tale

Tail is the end part of animals.

Tale is event’s stories  which is untrue.

I like to read fairy tales when I am free.

Son

Son is a male child

He loves his youngest son a lot.

Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron

Rust has corroded steel rails

Stare

Stare means to look fixedly

I took stairs instead of elevators

We just sat and stared at each other.

Sum

Sum means total amount

The sum of one and two is three

Soul

Soul means spiritual boy

My her soul rest in peace.

Sore

Sore means painful

She rubbed my sore spot.

See

See means to look

I don’t want to see him again.

Seen

Seen is the past participle of see

I have seen your document .

Plane

Plane is an aircraft

The flight was delayed due to trouble with the plane.

Peek

Peak means top

Peek means to look into secretly

She was standing taller at the peak of her career.

Why don’t you peek into the him.

Piece

Piece means one of the parts

Can you cut this cloth into three pieces.

None

None meant not any

None of them listened to orders.

Masque

Mask is a literal form of entertainment.

They performed masque dance in farewell.

Male

Male means man

She mailed date sheet to us before the exam.

Women have no rights in this male dominating world.

Maid

Maid  means a woman slave

A maid is waiting for her husband.

Lesson

Lesson means learning sessions

I want extra lessons of this theory

Not

Not means to deny

They will knot into unbreakable bond forever.

Do not come here until permitted.

Night

Night is the part of the day

I usually don’t travel at night.

Need

Need means necessity

What I need is peace only.

Idol

Idol – person whom you admire

He was the idol of the school.

Dye

Dye means a substance of colouring

Why don’t you dye your white hair?

Heel

Heel is the bottom of a boot or shoe.

She was wearing heels to look taller than him.

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