Homophones for the Non-Native English Speaker

Stephen T. (United States of America)
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. Non-native English speakers often hear and therefore pronounce some words differently than native speakers due to phonetic differences between their first (native) and second (English) languages.
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  1. indite
    produce a literary work
  2. indict
    accuse formally of a crime
  3. drive
    operate or control a vehicle
  4. derive
    come from
  5. staff
    personnel who assist their superior in carrying out a task
  6. stuff
    miscellaneous unspecified objects
  7. task
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
  8. tusk
    a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging
  9. fill
    make full, also in a metaphorical sense
  10. feel
    be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
  11. oral
    using speech rather than writing
  12. aural
    of or pertaining to hearing or the ear
  13. plaintiff
    a person who brings an action in a court of law
  14. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  15. set
    put into a certain place or abstract location
  16. said
    being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
  17. dead
    no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
  18. debt
    the state of owing something, especially money
  19. deal
    be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
  20. dill
    aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
  21. heel
    the back part of the human foot
  22. hill
    a local and well-defined elevation of the land
  23. eel
    voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
  24. ill
    affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  25. keel
    one of the main longitudinal beams of the hull of a vessel
  26. kill
    cause to die
  27. meal
    any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
  28. mill
    a facility for manufacturing
  29. kneel
    rest one's weight on one's knees
  30. nil
    a quantity of no importance
  31. peel
    the rind of a fruit or vegetable
  32. pill
    a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
  33. real
    being or occurring in fact or actuality
  34. reel
    a winder around which flexible materials can be wound
  35. seal
    fastener consisting of a resin that is plastic when warm
  36. sill
    structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
  37. tear
    separate or cause to separate abruptly
  38. tear
    cry or weep
  39. wail
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  40. whale
    largest mammal with a streamlined body and a blowhole
  41. work
    activity directed toward making or doing something
  42. walk
    use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
  43. fell
    cause to go down by or as if by delivering a blow
  44. fail
    be unable
  45. sell
    exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
  46. sale
    the general activity of selling
  47. pear
    Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit
  48. peer
    a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
  49. clothes
    apparel in general
  50. close
    move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
  51. waste
    use inefficiently or inappropriately
  52. west
    the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
  53. waist
    the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
  54. affect
    have an influence upon
  55. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  56. worrier
    thinks about unfortunate things that might happen
  57. warrior
    someone engaged in or experienced in warfare
  58. brad
    a small nail
  59. braid
    a hairdo formed by twisting the hair
  60. gas
    state of matter distinguished from solid and liquid states
  61. guess
    expect, believe, or suppose
  62. bread
    food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
  63. weight
    the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
  64. wait
    stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
  65. shock
    an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
  66. chalk
    a soft whitish calcite
  67. hurt
    be the source of pain
  68. heart
    the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum
  69. herd
    a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals
  70. heard
    detected or perceived via the auditory sense
  71. phase
    any distinct time period in a sequence of events
  72. faze
    disturb the composure of
  73. face
    the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin
  74. law
    the collection of rules imposed by authority
  75. low
    less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
  76. love
    a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
  77. loaf
    a shaped mass of baked bread
  78. rise
    move upward
  79. rice
    annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses
  80. raise
    move upwards
  81. race
    a contest of speed
  82. read
    look at and say out loud something written or printed
  83. red
    the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
  84. reed
    a tall woody perennial grass with a slender hollow stem
  85. island
    a land mass that is surrounded by water
  86. Iceland
    a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
  87. Ireland
    an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
  88. France
    a republic in western Europe
  89. friend
    a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
    Are your friends from France?
Created on Wed Feb 29 23:30:00 EST 2012 (updated Fri Apr 20 14:13:18 EDT 2012)

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