Homonyms (part 6 S, T, U, V, W, X, Y) |
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sachet | a small bag containing perfumed powder |
sashay | to strut or flounce | |
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sacks | bags |
sax | short for saxophone | |
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sail | wind powered water travel |
sale | the act of selling | |
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sane | mentally normal |
seine | fishing net | |
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saner | more mentally normal than others |
seiner | one who fishes with a net | |
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saver | one who saves |
savor | to relish a taste | |
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sawed | cut timber |
sod | turf | |
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scene | visual location |
seen | past tense of saw | |
scent, see: cent
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scull | rowing motion |
skull | head bone | |
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sea | ocean |
see | to look | |
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seal | to close |
seel | to close someone's eyes | |
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seam | row of stitches |
seem | appears | |
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seamen | sailors |
semen | male discharge | |
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seams | more than one rows of stitching |
seems | it appears to be | |
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sear | scorched |
seer | a person who sees | |
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seas | oceans |
sees | looks | |
seize | to grab | |
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sects | religious factions |
sex | if you have to ask, you're too young | |
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seek | to look for |
Sikh | Hindu religious sect | |
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serf | slave |
surf | breaking waves | |
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serge | strong twilled fabric |
surge | forceful push | |
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sew | needle and thread |
so | in the manner shown | |
sol | musical note | |
sow | broadcasting seeds | |
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sewer | one who sews |
sower | one who sows | |
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sewer | waste drain |
suer | one who sues | |
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shake | vibrate |
sheik | Arab prince | |
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shall | is allowed |
shell | aquatic exoskeleton | |
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she'll | contraction of "she will" |
shill | a decoy | |
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shear | to cut or wrench |
sheer | thin; abrupt turn | |
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shears | cuts or wrenches; scissors |
sheers | abruptly turns | |
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sheave | pulley |
shiv | knife | |
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shoe | footwear |
shoo | "go away" | |
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shoes | more than one shoe |
shoos | sends away | |
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sic | to set upon |
sick | ill | |
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sics | sets upon |
six | whole number | |
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side | lateral |
sighed | breathed sorrowfully | |
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sighs | multiple sad and weary breaths |
size | magnitude | |
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sign | displayed board bearing information |
sine | reciprocal of the cosecant | |
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sink | to submerge |
synch | together in time | |
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Sioux | tribe of native Americans |
sou | French coin worth five centimes | |
sough | soft sound | |
sue | bring civil action | |
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slay | kill |
sleigh | snow carriage | |
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sleight | cunning skill |
slight | not much | |
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slew | past tense of slay |
slough | bog | |
slue | to swing around | |
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sloe | blackthorn berries |
slow | not fast | |
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soar | fly |
sore | hurt | |
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soared | to have sailed through the air |
sword | long fighting blade | |
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solace | comfort |
soulless | lacking a soul | |
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sole | only |
soul | immortal part of a person | |
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some | a few |
sum | result of addition | |
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son | male child |
sun | star | |
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sonny | diminutive for male child |
sunny | lit by the sun | |
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soot | black residue of burning |
suit | clothes | |
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sordid | squalid |
sorted | arranged | |
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spade | shovel |
spayed | to sterilize a female animal | |
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spoor | trail of an animal |
spore | single cell reproductive body | |
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staid | reserved |
stayed | remained | |
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stair | a step |
stare | look intently | |
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stake | wooden pole |
steak | slice of meat | |
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statice | an astringent herb |
status | position with regard to law | |
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stationary | not moving |
stationery | writing paper | |
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steal | take unlawfully |
steel | iron alloy | |
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step | a measure taken |
steppe | a level, grassy, unforested plain | |
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stile | narrow passage |
style | mode | |
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stoop | a small porch |
stoup | a drinking cup | |
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storey | the horizontal divisions of a building |
story | a narrative tale | |
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straight | not crooked |
strait | narrow waterway | |
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succor | relief |
sucker | one who sucks | |
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suede | split leather |
swayed | curved; convinced | |
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suite | ensemble |
sweet | sugary | |
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summary | precis |
summery | like summer | |
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sundae | ice cream with syrup on it |
Sunday | first day of the week | |
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tach | short for tachometer |
tack | small nail | |
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tacks | small nails |
tax | governmental tithe | |
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tail | spinal appendage |
tale | story | |
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tailer | one who hauls in on a ship's line |
tailor | one who makes clothes | |
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taper | wedge-shaped |
tapir | hoglike, Malaysian mammal | |
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tare | allowance for the weight of packing materials |
tear | to rip | |
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taught | past tense of teach |
taut | stretched tight | |
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tea | herbal infusion |
tee | golfball prop | |
ti | musical note | |
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team | a group working together |
teem | to swarm | |
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teaming | a fortuitous pairing |
teeming | a swarming | |
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tear | eyeball lubricant |
tier | a horizontal row | |
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teas | more than one herbal infusion |
tease | tantalize | |
tees | more than one tee | |
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tenner | English slang for a ten pound note |
tenor | tendency | |
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tense | nervous |
tents | more than one temporary shelter | |
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tern | a shorebird |
terne | alloy of lead and tin | |
turn | rotate | |
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Thai | from Thailand |
tie | a draw | |
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the | denoting persons already mentioned |
thee | objective case of thou | |
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their | belonging to them |
there | a place | |
they're | contraction of "they are" | |
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threw | to propel by hand |
through | from end to end | |
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throe | a spasm of pain |
throw | to discharge through the air | |
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throes | spasms of pain |
throws | discharging through the air | |
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throne | the royal seat |
thrown | was hurled | |
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thyme | herb |
time | natures way of keeping everything from happening at once | |
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tic | twitch |
tick | small noise; parasitic bug | |
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ticks | the sounds of a clock |
tics | more than one twitch | |
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tide | periodic ebb and flow of oceans |
tied | passed tense of tie | |
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tighten | to make tighter |
titan | a giant | |
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timber | wood for building |
timbre | musical quality | |
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tire | round, rubber things on your car |
tyer | one who ties | |
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