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Homonyms and Homophones

The document discusses words that are either homonyms or homophones. [1] Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings, like pen, book, and bear. [2] Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings, like plate and plait, two and too, carat and carrot. [3] The document then provides examples of commonly confused word pairs that are homophones, along with their meanings to distinguish between them, such as affect and effect, all ready and already, and choose and chose.

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Homonyms and Homophones

The document discusses words that are either homonyms or homophones. [1] Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings, like pen, book, and bear. [2] Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings, like plate and plait, two and too, carat and carrot. [3] The document then provides examples of commonly confused word pairs that are homophones, along with their meanings to distinguish between them, such as affect and effect, all ready and already, and choose and chose.

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Words Similar in Pronunciation

(Homonyms and Homophones)


 Homonyms are two words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have
different meanings.

Examples:

 Pen (I have an ink pen/ hen lives in a pen)

 Book (I read a book/ I want to book tickets)

 Bear (I love a bear hug/ I cannot bear it anymore)

 Can (I have a tin can/ I can swim)

 Homophones are words that have the same sound but different meaning, and they are
often spelled differently.

Examples:

 Plate & Plait

 Two & Too

 Carat & Carrot

Accept Accept means “to receive”. Except means “to exclude”

Except e.g. Everyone except Rahul accepted the plan for the pleasure trip.
Access Access means the opportunity to approach or enter a place.
Excess means an amount of something that is more than necessary,
Excess permitted, or desirable

e.g: He had access to powerful politicians.


The excess food was given to the poor home.
Advice Advice is a noun and Advise is a verb.
Advise e.g. I need your advice.
I advise you to bring bottled water.
Adapt Adapt means to adjust.
Adopt Adopt means legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own or
Adept choose to take up, follow, or use.

Adept means very skilled or proficient at something.

e.g. She found it very difficult to adapt herself to hostel life

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She was happy to adopt a child.
This approach has been adopted by many big banks.
She is adept at Photography.
Affect Affect is a verb which means “to influence”. Effect is a noun which
Effect means “the outcome or result”. When used as a verb, effect means “to
produce a result”.

E.g. The injury won’t affect her performance.


The song had a soothing effect on the baby.
It will take years to effect meaningful changes in the educational system.
All ready All ready means “completely prepared” or that everyone or everything is
already prepared. Already means “before the time specified”.

e.g. We were all ready for the results.


I ate already.
Altar Altar means a sacred place of worship. Alter means change.
Alter
e.g. She offered flowers at the altar and prayed.
She altered her plan at the last moment.

Ascent Ascent means climbing up and assent means agreement.


Assent
e.g. The steep ascent of the hill was a challenge to the trekkers.
Have you obtained your teacher’s assent to this plan?
allusion An allusion is an indirect or casual reference. An illusion is a false idea
illusion or image.
e.g The film is full of allusions to Hitchcock.
Beside Beside is a proposition which means by the side of or next to. Besides
Besides means in addition to or other than.

e.g The notepad was beside the telephone.


They offer many flavours besides vanilla.
career Career means profession. Carrier means that which carries.
carrier e.g. Gandhiji practised truth in his legal career.
Some insects are carriers of disease germs.
Cease Cease means stop. Seize means capture.
seize That factory has ceased manufacturing steel wares.
He seizes every opportunity that comes by.
Choose Choose means to select and chose is the past tense form of this verb.
Chose
e.g. Yesterday I chose pasta but today I choose rice.
Compliment Compliment means a remark that expresses approval, admiration,
Complement or respect.
Ex: My compliments to the chef who prepared this wonderful meal
Complement means to make something else seem better or

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more attractive when combining with it:
Strawberries and cream complement each other perfectly.

Conscience Conscience (a noun) is the recognition of right and wrong.


Conscientious Conscientious is an adjective that means careful or thorough.
Conscious Conscious (adj) means awake or aware.

e.g
My conscience would really bother me if I lie.
He is a conscientious student
She was conscious of the fact that everyone was staring at her.

Decease Decease means death and disease means illness.


Disease
e.g. his father’s sudden decease was a shock to him.
Decent Decent is an adjective that connotes propriety or respectability. Descent
Descent refers to a plunge downwards or to ancestry. Dissent means
Dissent disagreement.

e.g. The plane began (to make) its final descent into the airport.
I express my dissent on this matter.

Desert Desert means vast sandy land. Desert as a verb means to abandon.
Dessert Dessert is a sweet dish that we generally eat after dinner or a meal.

Emigrate Emigrate means to leave ones country permanently in order to settle in


Immigrate another. Immigrate means to come into a country to settle there. Migrate
Migrate means to move from one place to another.
Elicit The verb elicit means “to draw forth”. The adjective illicit means
Illicit “illegal”.
Face Face means confront and deal with or accept. Phase has a number of
Phase specialized scientific meanings but tends to refer to a stage in a process.

Facilitate Facilitate means make easy.


Felicitate E.g: Modern gadgets have facilitated housework.
Felicitate means congratulate someone.
E.g. A part was arranged to felicitate the award winner.
Industrial Industrial means pertaining to industry. Industrious means hard working.
Industrious
e.g. India will be an industrial power by the 21st century.
Joe is an industrious worker.
It’s It’s is the short form of ‘it is’. Its means belonging to or relating to
Its something that has already been mentioned.

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e.g. It’s going to rain today.
The dog hurt its paw.
Practice Practice is a noun and Practise is a verb.
Practise

Principal Principal is the head of an institution. As an adjective, it can mean first in


Principle order of importance or main.

Principle is the guiding rule.


Stationary Stationary means fixed and not moving.
Stationery e.g. the bus collided with a stationary van.

Stationery means writing and other office materials.


Team Team is a group of players.
Teem Teems means full of.
e.g. His head is teeming with odd ideas.

Home work: Find out the meaning of the following homophones:

Human and humane, Judicious and Judicial, Loose and Lose, Metal and Mettle, Weather
and Whether.

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