Homonyms are words that sound alike, but have different meanings.
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adapt - adept
excerpt - except - accept
personal - personnel
advice - advise
fair - fare
plain - plane
feat - feet
pole - poll
allowed - aloud
flair - flare
poor - pore - pour
for - fore - four
presence - presents
all together - altogether
foul - fowl
principal - principle
gate - gait
quiet - quite - quit
altar - alter
groan - grown
rain - reign - rein
angel - angle
heroin - heroine
role - roll
assistance - assistants
hall - haul
roomer - rumor
base - basis - basics
holy - wholly
scene - seen
bear - bare
hoarse - horse
sip - sheep
belief - believe
hole - whole
sight - site
boarder - border
slip - sleep - slept - slipped
brake - break
incite - insight
soar - sore
breath - breathe
instance - instants
sole - soul
brewed - brood
stationary - stationery
capital - capitol
later - latter - ladder - letter
strait - straight
cellar - seller
lead - led
sweet - suite
cent - scent - sent
lice - lies
tail - tale
cereal - serial
life - live
than - then
chef - chief
lightening - lightning
cite - sight - site
loose - lose
trader - traitor
clench - clinch
maid - made - mad
to - too - two
close - clothes - cloth - clothe
medal - meddle - metal
vain - vane - vein
coarse - course
miner - minor
vary - very
complement - compliment
moan - mown
waist - waste
core - corps - corpse
moot - mute
waive - wave
council - counsel
naval - navel
warn - worn
creak - creek
oar - ore
weather - whether
decent - descent
one - won - own
whale - wail - wheel - will
desert - dessert
overdo - overdue
which - witch
discreet - discrete
pain - pane
white - wit
effect - affect
passed - past
whose - who’s
elicit - illicit
peace - piece
eminent - imminent
peak - peek
pedal - peddle - petal
feet - feat