Additional language Exercises

12. Words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings are referred to as homonyms. Below is a list of homonyms taken from "Alan Cooper's Homonym List" at http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html Match the words with their meanings.

affect	to change		bight	middle of a rope		elude	to escape from
effect	result		bite	a mouthful		illude	to deceive
aisle	walkway		byte	eight bits		epic	a narrative poem or story
I'll	contraction of "I will"		boos	disparaging sounds from fans		epoch	a noteworthy period in history
isle	island		booze	whiskey		incite	to provoke
aural	of hearing		brews	more than one beer		insight	understanding
oral	of the mouth		bruise	a contusion		lightening	removing weight or darkness
awed	in a state of wonder		calendar	chart of days		lightning	static electricity from the sky
odd	not usual		calender	paper press		overdo	carried to excess
aweful	filled with awe		forego	to precede		overdue	past time for payment
awful	really bad		forgo	to abstain from		pedal	foot control
offal	butchered entrails		census	numbering		peddle	to sell
band	a group		senses	faculties		racket	illegal moneymaking scheme
banned	forbidden		cent	one hundredth of a dollar		racquet	woven bat for tennis
bard	a poet		scent	an aroma		recede	to move backward
barred	enclosed by poles		sent	dispatched		reseed	to plant again
baron	minor royalty		cereal	grains		rote	by memory
barren	unable to bear children		serial	numbers in sequence		wrote	has written
fort	a fortification		cite	to refer to		saver	one who saves
forte	a person's strong point		sight	vision		savor	to relish a taste
Barry	a man's name		site	a location		stationary	not moving
berry	small fruit		coarse	rough		stationery	writing paper
bury	to take under		course	path of travel		summary	précis
bases	what baseball players like to steal		complement	allotment		summery	like summer
basis	principal constituent of anything		compliment	encomium		troop	a company of soldiers
basses	many four-stringed guitars		elicit	to draw out		troup	a company of actors
berth	anchorage		illicit	unlawful		wail	a cry
birth	your method of arrival					whale	large oceanic mammal

Part 4 Face-to-face with English

Unit 1. English in the World

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