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Amy Pontarelli
Homophones
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| STARES - to gaze intently, especially with eyes wide open | STAIRS - a series of steps to go from one floor onto another |
| HIRE - to engage in the services of a person in exchange for wages or other payment | HIGHER - having a specified extent upward |
| PAIR -two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together | PEAR - the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree |
| ALLOWED - to give permission to or for; permit | ALOUD - with the normal tone and volume of the speaking voice, as distinguished from whisperingly |
| THREW - to propel or cast in any way, esp. to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist | THROUGH - in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other |
| WAIST - the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso. | WASTE - to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit |
| RIGHT - in accordance with what is good, proper, or just | WRITE - to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe |
| STEEL- a thing or things made of this metal. | STEAL - to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch. |
| HOUR - or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes | OUR - used to denote oneself and another or others |
| ONE - being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single | WON - to finish first in a race, contest, or the like. |
| WHALE - any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, esp. as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened | WAIL - to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering |
| PIECE - a separate or limited portion or quantity of something | PEACE - an agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to end hostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism |
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