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Words Meaning Words Meaning

Accident Bad event Beside Next to
Incident Any event Besides In addition to

Advice Noun Brake Stopping device

Advise Verb Break Split, smash

All ready Everything is ready Bring up Parents bring up children

Already Happened earlier Grow up Children grow up

Allowed Permitted Buy Purchase

Aloud Clearly heard By Preposition

Allude Make indirect reference Capitol Building

Elude Escape from something Capital City, wealth
Place of religious
Altar Cloth Material cotton, wool
ceremonies
Alter Clothes Items that we wear
Change
Appraise To elevate Coarse Rough
Apprise To inform or notify Course Way or path
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Ate The past tense of eat

Eight The number

Averse Describes a situation

Adverse Goes against what you want

Beside Next to
Besides In addition to

Brake Stopping device

Break Split, smash
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Bring up Parents bring up children

Grow up Children grow up

Buy Purchase
By Preposition

Capitol Building
Capital City, wealth

Cloth Material cotton, wool

Clothes Items that we wear
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Compliment Positive comment

Complement Two things that go together

Confidant Self-trust
Confident Feel about good outcome

Emigrate Leave your own country

Immigrate Come and live in a country

Ensure Guarantee
Insure Financial liability
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Further Abstract idea

Farther Physical distance

You’ve traveled and not returned yet

Gone to
You’ve traveled and have already
Been to
returned

Good Adjective
Well Adverb

Guarantee Refers to promise

Warranty Used for products
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Here In this place

Hear Perceive, listening

Is still a house even if no one living

House
inside it
Home
Is a place where you live or the location

Insight In depth
Incite Provoke to action

Last Final
Latest Most recent
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Loose Free
Lose Misplace

Morale State of spirit

Moral Lesson

Peak Top
Pique Provoke, Arouse

Piece Part, portion

Peace Absence of war
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Plane Flat surface

Plain Simple

Principal Chief person, Head person

Principle Rule, law

Poor Have no money

Pore Putting

Pray Asking God

Prey An animal that is hunted
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Quiet Silent
Quite Really, positively

Remember Think of a memory

Reminder Notes, Cell alerts

Review To examine
Revise Correction of errors

Sell Verb
Sale Noun
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Then At that time

Than Comparison

To In the direction of something

Too Also

Week Seven days

Weak Feeble

Whether If, in case

Weather Atmosphere
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Whom Object
Who Subject

Witch Sorceress
Which What one

Beside Next to
Besides In addition to

Brake Stopping device

Break Split, smash