Homonyms and Near Sound-Alikes

accept/ except	human/ humane
advice/ advise	its/ it’s
affect/ effect	know/ no
aisle/ isle	later/ latter
already/ all ready	latter/ ladder
altar/ alter	lead/ led
altogether/ all together	lessen/ lesson
angel/ angle	lightning/ lightening
are/ hour	loose/ lose
ascent/ assent	maybe/ may be
assistance/ assistants	meat/ meet
bare/ bear	miner/ minor
board/ bored	of/ off
brake/ break	our/ hour
breath/ breathe	passed/ past
buy/ by	patience/ patients
capital/ capitol	peace/ piece
choose/ chose	personal/ personnel
cite/ sight/ site	plain/ plane
clothes/ cloths	principal/ principle
coarse/ course	quiet/ quite
complement/ compliment	rain/ reign/ rein
conscience/ conscious	right/ rite/ write
council/ counsel	rode/ road
dairy/ diary	scene/ seen
dessert/ desert	sense/ since/ scents
device/ devise	stationary/ stationery
dominant/ dominate	than/ then
die/ dye	there/ their/ they're
dying/ dyeing	through/ threw
fair/ fare	to/ too/ two
formally/ formerly	weak/ week
forth/ fourth	weather/ whether
gorilla/ guerilla	where/ wear
hear/ here	which/ witch
heard/ herd	whose/ who's
hole/ whole	your/ yore/ you're

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