Tamilnadu State Board Class 10 English Vocabulary Homophones & Confusables
♦ Homophones & Confusables (Text Book Page No.: 194,195)
Homophones
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. The text has many homophones such as: see-sea, hear-here, knew-new.
Confusables
Commonly confused words
English has a lot of commonly confused words. They either look alike or look and sound alike, but have completely different meanings and usage. Here are some examples from the text.
brought (v) –
past participle of bring.
E.g. Anitha had brought a book from the library,
bought (v) –
past participle of buy.
E.g. Lalitha had bought a new dress last week.
effect (v) – to have an effect on.
E.g. The pet’s death affected his master,
effect (n) –
anything brought about by a cause or agent; result.
E.g. Both El Nino and La Nina are opposite effects of the same phenomenon.
| adopt | adapt |
| advice | advise |
| aloud | allowed |
| birth | berth |
| blew | blue |
| bore | boar |
| bow | bough |
| brake | break |
| by | buy |
| canvass | canvas |
| carat | carrot |
| career | carrier |
| ceased | seized |
| cent | sent |
| cereal | serial |
| check | cheque |
| chord | card |
| clause | claws |
| coarse | course |
| compliment | complement |
| corps | corpse |
| cot | caught |
| council | counsel |
| dairy | diary |
| dessert | desert |
| dew | due |
| die | dye |
| discord | discard |
| eyes | ice |
| fair | fare |
| feat | feet |
| flour | floor |
| form | farm |
| foul | fowl |
| groan | grown |
| hair | heir |
| hair | hare |
| heal | heel |
| heard | herd |
| here | hear |
| hole | whole |
| hour | our |
| inn | in |
| knight | night |
| knot | not |
| know | no |
| lakh | lack |
| lice | lies |
| line | lion |
| litter | litre |
| loan | lone |
| loss | laws |
| meat | meet |
| metal | mettle |
| navel | naval |
| new . | knew |
| none | nun |
| overseas | oversees |
| pale | pail |
| pass | pause |
| peace | piece |
| peal | peel |
| phase | face |
| pore | pour |
| prey | pray |
| principle | principal |
| prize | price |
| quiet | quite |
| rack | rake |
| rice | rise |
| riot | ryot |
| roll | role |
| root | route |
| sail | sale |
| sea | see |
| sealing | ceiling |
| sell | cell |
| site | cite |
| sole | soul |
| son | sun |
| sore | soar |
| sow | so |
| stare | stair |
| stationary | stationery |
| steel | steal |
| storey | story |
| strait | straight |
| sum | some |
| tale | tail |
| thrash | trash |
| tied | tide |
| too | two |
| tow | toe |
| troop | troupe |
| vacation | vocation |
| wait | weight |
| way | weigh |
| weak | week |
| wear | where |
| weary | wary |
| weather | whether |
| whole : | hole |
| wise | vice |
| write | right |
| year | ear |
Exercises
Fill in the blank with correct Homophone.
Question 1.
Be careful around the figurines because they _______ easily, (brake/break)
Answer:
break
Question 2.
I can’t _______ this burden any longer, (bear/bare)
Answer:
bear
Question 3.
The poor man only had one _______ to his name, (scent/cent)
Answer:
cent
Question 4.
That poem is very _______ to me. (deer/dear)
Answer:
dear
Question 5.
I hope my plants don’t _______ in this heat, (die/dye)
Answer:
die
Question 6.
The recipe calls for two cups of _______ (flower/flour)
Answer:
flour
Question 7.
Have you read the story about the tortoise and the _______? (hair/hare)
Answer:
hare
Question 8.
Vegetarians do not eat _______ (meat/meet)
Answer:
meat
Question 9.
Let’s go buy a new _______ of shoes, (pear/pair)
Answer:
pair
Question 10.
My _______ is presently in the military, (son/sun)
Answer:
son
Question 11.
Why don’t the _______ of us go to town tomorrow? (too/two)
Answer:
two
Question 12.
My favourite _______ is cornflakes, (serial/cereal)
Answer:
cereal
Question 13.
I ordered the Mexican Hot Pizza, but couldn’t eat the _______ on top! (chilli/chilly)
Answer:
chilli
Question 14.
Chilled white _______ goes well with fish, (wine/whine)
Answer:
wine
Question 15.
He held the railing as he walked down the _______ (stairs/stares).
Answer:
stairs
Question 16.
The snowstorm will _______ thousands of travellers, (affect/effect)
Answer:
affect
Question 17.
The dog chased the _______ into the neighbour’s yard, (ball/bawl)
Answer:
ball
Question 18.
The contractors _______ the company for travel expenses, (billed/build)
Answer:
hilled
Question 19.
Seoul is the _______ of South Korea, (capital/capital)
Answer:
capital
Question 20.
The squirrels _______ the peanuts under the snow, (berry/bury)
Answer:
bury