More homophones and other descent: the act of descending principal: adjective most – words that are often confused (going down). important (e.g. principal dissent: to ballerina) noun important – disagree/disagreement person (e.g. principal of a (verb and noun). college) principle: basic truth or belief desert: as a noun a barren – place (stress on first syllable); as profit: money that is made in a verb to abandon (stress on selling things – second syllable) dessert: (stress prophet: someone who on second syllable) a sweet foretells the future course after the main course of stationary: not moving a meal. stationery: paper, envelopes noun a first attempt at etc. – writing something; verb to – steal: take something that make the first attempt; also, to does not belong to you draw in someone (e.g. to draft steel: metal in extra help) wary: cautious draught: a current of air. tired who’s: contraction of who is or who has whose: belonging to someone (e.g. Whose jacket is that?)
More homophones and other words that are often confused descent: the act of descending (going down). dissent: to disagree/disagreement (verb and noun). desert: as a noun – a barren place (stress on first syllable); as a verb – to abandon (stress on second syllable) dessert: (stress on second syllable) a sweet course after the main course of a meal. noun – a first attempt at writing something; verb – to make the first attempt; also, to draw in someone (e.g. to draft in extra help) draught: a current of air. principal: adjective – most important (e.g. principal ballerina) noun – important person (e.g. principal of a college) principle: basic truth or belief profit: money that is made in selling things prophet: someone who foretells the future stationary: not moving stationery: paper, envelopes etc. steal: take something that does not belong to you steel: metal wary: cautious tired who’s: contraction of who is or who has whose: belonging to someone (e.g. Whose jacket is that?)
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