Homonym Lists - 098
Addition - something that is added
Edition - an issue of a newspaper or the next in a series of printed works
Accept – to take or receive
Except – excluding, other than
Advice – recommendation (noun)
Advise – to caution or warn (verb)
Allowed - to be permitted
Aloud - “out loud”
All ready - everything or everyone is ready
Already - before, previously
Altar – a raised platform in a church
Alter – to change
Angel - a heaving being
Angle - the space between lines
Beside - next to
Besides - in addition or additionally
Brake - to stop or a device for stopping
Break - to shatter or make something come apart
Breath - air you take in (rhymes with death); a thing
Breathe - the action of taking air in (the e on the end is a clue to pronounce with a long E.
Cereal - a breakfast food
Serial - in a series
Capital – a city that is the seat of government, wealth or money, an upper case letter
Capitol – a building where a legislative body meets
Close - to shut or to be near to or intimate
Clothes - wearing apparel
Cloths - pieces of fabric
Complement - to complete or make better–to go with
Compliment - Praise (the I tells you it’s what I like to hear)
Conscience - your inner moral guide
Conscious - mentally awake
Council - a group of people
Counsel - to give advice (you “sell” your opinion)
Farther - a greater distance, to be far from
Further - to a greater extent, additional or greater
Hear - to use your hear
Here - in this place (add a “T” and you get “there”)
Hole - en empty space or opening
Whole - complete or entire
It’s – contraction for “it is” or “it has”
Its – possessive, showing ownership
Isle - an island
Aisle - a passageway between sections of seats
Know - to understand
No - a negative
Circle the correct word in each section below:
1. When the bride and groom stood at the (altar, alter) the flower girl behind them looked
like a little (angel, angle).
2. Everyone (accept, except) Karen is ready to take Vic’s (advice, advise) about an
appropriate (course, coarse) of action.
3. Too much criticism can have a negative (affect, effect) on a child; it can (break, brake) a
child’s spirit.
4. Eric never (allowed, aloud) himself to spend any money for the (hole, whole) day.
5. I ran out of (breath, breathe) trying to make it to work on time.
6. I don’t like the (close, clothes, cloths) Ingrid bought; they did not (complement,
compliment) her coloring.
7. You deserve a (compliment, complement) for the way you (knew, new) how to handle that
angry customer.
8. Tom thinks (it’s, its) a good idea to campaign for the city (council, counsel) that meets at
the (capital, capitol) building.
9. This discussion has lost (its, it’s) point, so let’s not take it any (farther, further).
10. The (hole, whole) issue is a matter of each individual’s (conscience, conscious.)
11. It requires a great deal of (capitol, capital) to start a business, but entrepreneurs often
feel (it’s, its) a necessary risk.
12. Many breakfast (cereals, serials) are loaded with sugar so nutritionists (advice, advise)
more healthy options.
13. The (isle, aisle) of Kawaii is one that our family has (all ready, already) visited, so we look
forward to exploring others.
14. (Besides, beside) being an inexpensive but high-quality magazine, Smithsonian offers an
online (addition, edition).