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# oar.............boat propulsion system
# or...............comparitive article
# ore.............mineral-laden dirt

# odd.............see: awed

# offal............see: aweful

# oh...............interjection
# owe.............to be indebted

# ohs.............more than one letter "O"
# owes............in debt

# one.............singularity
# won.............victorious

# oohs...........as in "oohs and ahs"
# ooze...........slime

# oracle, see: auricle

# oral, see: aural

# ordinance......a decree
# ordnance.......artillery

# ought, see: aught

# our, see: hour

# ours, see: hours

# overdo.........carried to excess
# overdue........past time for payment

# paced..........measured by footsteps
# paste..........thick glue

# packed.........placed in a container
# pact...........agreement

# pail...........bucket
# pale...........light colored

# pain...........it hurts
# pane...........a single panel of glass

# pair...........a set of two
# pare...........cutting down
# pear...........bottom-heavy fruit

# palate.........taste
# pallet.........a platform for transporting goods; bed
# pallette.......a selection of paint

# pall...........to become wearisome
# Paul...........a man's name
# pawl...........locks a ratchet

# passed.........approved; moved on
# past...........before now

# patience.......being willing to wait
# patients.......doctor's customer

# pause..........to hesitate
# paws...........cat transportation

# pea............round, green legume
# pee............urinate, slang

# peace..........free of war or calamity
# piece..........a part of

# peak...........mountain top
# peek...........secret look
# pique...........ruffled pride

# peal...........ringing sound
# peel...........fruit outer covering, the act of removing a covering

# pealed.........rang with sound as with a bell
# peeled.........having removed the covering

# pearl..........round, luminescent gem from an oyster
# purl...........to edge with a chain of small loops as in knitting

# pedal..........foot control
# peddle.........to sell

# peer...........an equal
# pier...........wharf

# pencil.........writing implement
# pensil.........thin, swallowtail flag

# per............for each
# purr...........endearing cat hum

# pharoah, see: farrow

# phase, see: faze

# phased, see: fazed

# phew, see: few

# phial, see: file

# philter, see: filter

# phlox, see: flocks

# pi.............3.1416...
# pie............filled crust pastry

# picnic.........outdoor meal
# pyknic.........physiological type with thick neck, large abdomen and short limbs

# pieced.........assembled from pieces
# piste..........a ski run of compacted snow

# pincer.........claw-like gripping action
# pincher........one who pinches
# pinscher.......terrier

# pistil.........seed-bearing organ of a flower
# pistol.........hand gun

# place..........a location
# plaice.........a flounder

# plain..........not fancy
# plane..........a surface

# plait..........braid
# plate..........a dish

# planar.........flat
# planer.........one who planes

# pleas..........crys for help
# please.........good manners

# pleural........related to lungs
# plural.........more than one

# plum...........purple fruit
# plumb..........straight up and down

# polar..........relating to the North or South poles
# poler..........one who uses a pole

# Pole...........a person from Poland
# pole...........big stick
# poll...........a voting

# poled..........a pole was used
# polled.........lacking horns

# pone...........the dealer's opponent in two-handed card games
# pony...........a small horse

# poor...........no money
# pore...........careful study; microscopic hole
# pour...........to flow freely


# popery.........a disparaging term for Catholics
# potpourri......a miscellaneous collection

# praise.........to commend
# prays..........petition to God
# preys..........hunts

# pray...........worship God
# prey...........hunt

# precedence.....priority
# precedents.....established course of action
# presidents.....commanders-in-chief

# presence.......the state of being present
# presents.......gifts

# pride..........ego
# pryed..........opened with force

# pries..........wedging open
# prize..........the reward

# prince.........son of the King
# prints.........impressions

# principal......head of school
# principle......causative force

# profit.........money earned
# prophet........seer

# pros...........multiple experts
# prose..........ordinary language

# psi............twenty-third letter of Greek alphabet
# sigh...........sad and weary breath
# xi.............fourteenth letter of Greek alphabet

# quarts.........several fourths-of-gallons
# quartz.........crystalline rock

# quay, see: cay

# queue, see: cue

# quince.........small, round fruit
# quints.........multiple quintuplets

# quire, see: choir

# quoin, see: coin

# rabbet.........a groove cut in a board
# rabbit.........small mammal

# rack...........shelf
# wrack..........wreckage

# racket.........illegal moneymaking scheme
# racquet........woven bat for tennis

# rain...........precipitation
# reign..........sovereign rule
# rein...........horse's steering wheel

# raise..........elevate
# rays...........thin beams of light
# raze...........to tear down completely
# ("raise" is the antonym of "raze")

# rap............a sharp knock
# wrap...........to encase in cloth

# rapped.........knocked sharply
# rapt...........spellbound
# wrapped........encased in cloth

# ray............arrow of light
# re.............musical note

# read...........having knowledge from reading
# red............a primary color

# read...........to get the meaning by looking
# rede...........advice
# reed...........tall, thin water plant

# reading........what you are doing now
# reeding........a small semicylindrical moulding or ornamentation

# reads..........gets the meaning by looking
# reeds..........more than one aquatic plant

# real...........authentic
# reel...........armature for winding, a type of group dance

# recede.........to move backward
# reseed.........to plant again

# reck...........to care
# wreck..........a ruin

# reek...........smells bad
# wreak..........to inflict

# resinate.......to impregnate with resin
# resonate.......sympathetic vibration

# resisters......protesters
# resistors......electrical restrictors

# rest...........stop working
# wrest..........take away

# retch..........call Ralph on the porcelain telephone
# wretch.........a ragamuffin

# review.........a general survey or assessment
# revue..........a series of theatrical sketches or songs

# rheum..........watery discharge of mucous
# room...........partitioned space

# rheumy.........having a watery discharge of mucous
# roomie.........colloquialism for "roommate"
# roomy..........lots of space

# rho............seventeenth letter of Greek alphabet
# roe............fish eggs
# row............aisle; pull an oar

# rhumb..........a constant compass direction
# rum............liquor distilled from sugar cane

# rhyme..........a verse with regular recurrence of sounds
# rime...........frost

# rigger.........one who rigs
# rigor..........discipline

# right..........correct
# rite...........ritual
# wright.........a maker
# write..........to inscribe

# ring...........circle
# wring..........twisting

# rise...........to stand up
# ryes...........varieties of grain

# road...........a broad trail
# rode...........past tense of ride
# rowed..........to propel a boat by oars

# roam...........to wander
# Rome...........capital of Italy

# roil...........to make turbid
# royal..........worthy of a king or queen

# role...........part to play
# roll...........rotate

# rood...........a cross
# rude...........coarse

# roomer.........a tenant
# rumor..........gossip

# root...........subterranean part of a plant
# route..........path of travel

# rose...........a brush or shrublike flower, a pink color
# rows...........linear arrangement

# rot............decay
# wrought........made

# rote...........by memory
# wrote..........past tense of write

# rough..........coarse
# ruff...........pleated collar

# rout...........to force out
# route..........path of travel

# roux...........cooked butter and flour
# rue............regret

# rude...........impolite
# rued...........regretted

# rye............grain
# wry............twisted


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