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F

	farrow	a litter of pigs
	pharoah	Egyptian king
	faux	fake
	foe	enemy
	fay	a fairy
	Faye	a woman's name
	fey	strange and otherwordly
	fays	more than one fairy
	faze	to disconcert

	faze	to stun
	phase	a part of the sequence

	fazed	stunned
	phased	done in sequential parts
	feat	an accomplishment
	feet	look down
	ferrate	a salt containing iron and oxygen
	ferret	a domesticated polecat
	feted	celebrated
	fetid	stinking

	few	not many
	phew	expression of relief

	file	a folder for holding papers
	phial	a small glass bottle
	fills	plural of fill
	fils	one one-thousandth of an Iraqi dinar

	filter	keep the bad stuff from passing through
	philter	a love potion
	find	to locate
	fined	to have to pay a parking ticket
	finish	to complete
	Finnish	from Finland
	fir	evergreen tree
	fur	animal hair
	furr	to separate with strips of wood
	fisher	one who fishes
	fissure	a crack
	flair	verve
	flare	to spread
	flea	parasitic insect
	flee	to run away
	flecks	many tiny specks
	flex	to bend
	flew	past tense of fly
	flu	short for influenza
	flue	chimney pipe
	Flo	a girl's name
	floe	sheet of floating ice
	flow	to glide along

	flocks	more than one group of birds
	phlox	a scented plant
	floes	sheets of floating ice
	flows	glides along
	floor	what one walks on
	fluor	something that glows
	flour	powdered grain
	flower	a bloom
	for	in place of
	fore	in front
	four	number after three
	forego	to precede
	forgo	to abstain from
	foreword	introduction to a book
	forward	the facing direction
	fort	a fortification
	forte	a person's strong point
	forth	a direction
	fourth	following the third
	foul	grossly offensive to the senses
	fowl	domestic hen or rooster
	frees	releasing
	freeze	very cold
	frieze	a wall decoration
	friar	a monk
	fryer	small chicken

G

	gaff	a barbed spear
	gaffe	a mistake
	gage	a pledge or security deposit
	gauge	instrument for measuring
	gait	a manner of walking or running
	gate	fence door
	gaited	describing a walking horse
	gated	having a gate
	galley	ship's kitchen
	gally	to frighten or terrify
	gallop	horse's fastest gait
	galop	a round dance
	gays	a frisky gathering
	gaze	a languid look

	gene	a chromosome
	jean	cotton twill
	gild	to coat with gold
	gilled	having gills
	guild	a craft society
	gilt	gold-plated
	guilt	culpable

	gin	alcoholic beverage
	jinn	plural of jinni, a Muslim spirit or demon

	gnawed	chewed
	nod	head tilting

	gneiss	coarse-grained metamorphic rock of feldspar, quartz and mica
	nice	pleasant

	gnu	African antelope
	knew	past tense of know
	new	not old

	gnus	several antelope
	news	timely information
	gored	pierced by an animal's horns
	gourd	fleshy fruit with hard skin
	gorilla	large ape
	guerrilla	irregular soldier
	grade	a slope
	grayed	turned gray
	graft	to attach
	graphed	plotted
	grate	a lattice
	great	extremely good
	grays	more than one shade of black
	graze	to eat grass while wandering
	grease	lubricant
	Greece	Mediterranean country
	greave	leg armor
	grieve	to mourn
	greaves	more than one greave
	grieves	to mourn
	grill	to sear cook
	grille	an iron gate or door
	groan	reaction to hearing a pun
	grown	has gotten larger
	guessed	past tense of guess
	guest	a visitor
	guide	one who shows the way
	guyed	secured with a rope or wire
	guise	appearance
	guys	Garrison Keillor's obsession
	gunnel	small, eel-shaped marine fish; butterfish
	gunwale	upper part of sides of a boat

	gym	sports room
	Jim	nickname for James

H

	hail	frozen rain
	hale	robust health
	hair	grows from your head
	hare	rabbit
	hairy	having much hair
	Harry	a man's name
	harry	to harass or hunt
	hall	a large room
	haul	to carry
	halve	break in two
	have	to hold in possession
	halves	more than one half
	haves	those who possess
	hammock	rope bed
	hummock	low, rounded hill
	hangar	garage for airplanes
	hanger	from which things hang
	Harold	a man's name
	herald	a horn blower
	hart	a stag
	heart	blood pump
	haut	high, as in "haut couture"
	ho	an expression of admiration or surprise
	hoe	garden tool
	hay	grass
	hey	a shout
	hays	more than one type of hay
	haze	atmospheric obscuration due to water or dust
	he'd	contraction of "he would"
	heed	to pay attention
	he'll	contraction of "he will"
	heal	to make well
	he'll	contraction of "he will"
	hill	smaller than a mountain
	heal	to cure of disease
	heel	hind part of foot
	hear	to listen
	here	at this location
	heard	listened to
	herd	a group of ruminants
	heigh	an exclamation
	hi	a greeting
	hie	to go quickly
	high	way up

heir, see: air

	heroin	narcotic
	heroine	female hero
	hew	to chop
	hue	a color
	Hugh	a man's name
	hide	animal skin
	hied	hurried
	higher	farther up
	hire	to employ
	him	pronoun
	hymn	religious song

	hoar	a white frost
	whore	a prostitute

	hoard	a great stash
	horde	a great many people
	whored	prostituted
	hoarse	rough voice
	horse	equine
	hoes	more than one garden weeding tool
	hose	tube for watering garden weeds
	hold	to grip
	holed	full of holes

	hole	round opening
	whole	entirety

	holey	perforated
	holy	with religious significance
	wholly	completely
	hostel	inexpensive lodging for travelers
	hostile	unfriendly

	hour	sixty minutes
	our	possessed by us

	hours	time measurement
	ours	belonging to us
	humerus	funny bone
	humorous	funny

I

 I, see: aye

 

 I'll, see: aisle

 

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