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Complement, the remainder Gompliment, to speak obliging Concert, music

Consort, wife of a sovereign

Cousin, a relation

Cozen, to cheat

Council, an assembly Counsel, to advise

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Cruise, to sail up and down
Cruse, a little vessel

Current, a running stream
Currant, passable

Courier, a messenger
Currier, a dresser of leather

Creek, of the sea
Creak, to make a noise

Crewel, worsted
Cruel, fierce

Dane, a man of Denmark

Deign, to vouchsafe

Dam, to stop water
Damn, to condemn

Day,
24 hours

Dey, a magistrate in Barbary

Dear, of great value
Deer, in a park

Dew, from Heaven

Due, a debt

Dredge, a flour-box
Drudge, a slave

Earing, the time of harvest
Ear-ring, a ring for the ear
Eaten, devoured

Eaton, a town's name

Er, the son of Judah
Err, to mistake

Fane, a weather-cock
Fain, desirous
Feign, to dissemble

Faint, weary

Feint, a false march

Fair, comely

Fare, a customary duty

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Do, to act

Die, to decease

Fourth, in number

Dye, to stain cloth

Dire, dreadful

Dyer, a stainer of cloth

Disease, a sickness
Disseize, to dispossess

Doe, a female deer
Dough, paste or leaven
Done, acted
Dun, colour

Foul, nasty
Fowl, a bird

Frays, quarrels

Froise, fried meat

Gall, a bitter substance
Gaul, a Frenchman

Gargil, a distemper in geese
Gargle, to wash the mouth

Gilt, with gold Guilt, sin

Glair, the white of an egg

Glare, to dazzle

Grate, for coals
Great, large

Grater, for nutmeg
Greater, larger
Grays, a town's name
Graze, to eat grass
Grease, nasty fat
Greece, a country

Groan, to sigh
Grown, increased
Hail, to salute

Hale, to draw along
Hart, a beast
Heart, the seat of life
Hare, in the fields
Hair, of the head

Here, in this place
Hear, to harken

Hew, to cut

Hue, colour

Hugh, a man's name

High, lofty

Hoy, a ship

Him, that man

Hymn, a sacred song

Hire, wages
Higher, more high
Hoar, frost

Whore, a lewd woman
Hole, hollowness
Whole, perfect
Hoop, for a tub
Whoop, to cry out
Hough, to hamstring
Huff, to swagger

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In, within

Inn, for travellers
Indict, to prosecute
Indite, to compose
Kill, to murder
Kiln, for bricks

Knave, a dishonest man
Nave, of a wheel
Knight, by honour
Night, the evening

Know, to be acquainted No, not so

Knew, did know

New, not old or used

Known, discovered
None, neither

Knows, he knoweth

Nose, of the face

Lade, to carry water

Laid, placed

Lain, did lie

Lane, a narrow passage

Leak, to let in water
Leek, a pot-herb

Lees, dregs of wine
Lesse, to loose

Lessen, to make less
Lesson, reading

Lier, in wait

Liar, or Lyer, a teller of lies Lyre, a musical instrument

Limb, a member

Limn, to pain

Line, length

Loin, of veal

Mo, more

Mow, to cut down grass

Lineament, the proportion of Mortar, to pound in

the face

Liniment, a cedicine

Morter, made of lime

Naught, bad

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Nought, nothing Nay, not

Neigh, as a horse

News, tidings

Noose, a knot

Not, denying

Made, finished

Maid, a virgin

Main, the chief thing Mane, of a horse

Male, the he

Mail, armour

Mall, a wooden hammer

Mall, to beat

Manner, custom
Manor, a lordship

Marten, a bird

Martin, a man's name

Mean, of low value

Knot, to untie

Oar, of a boat
O'er, over
Ore, of metal
Of, belonging to
Off, at a distance

Oh! alas!

Owe, to be indebted

One, in number

Won, did win

Our, of us

Hour, sixty minutes

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Falate, of the mouth

Pallet, a little bed
Pale, colour
Pail, a vessel

Pall, a funeral cloth
Paul, a man's name
Pain, torment

Pane, a square of glass

Peal, upon the bells
Peel, the outside

Pear, fruit
Pair, a couple
Pare, to cut off

Peer, a lord
Pier, a large glass-

Peter, a man's name
Petre, salt

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Praise, commendation

Prays, he prayeth

Principal, chief
Principle, the first rule
Profit, advantage
Prophet, a foreteller
Quean, a nasty slut
Queen, a king's wife

Quire, of paper
Choir, of singers
Rag, a tatter
Wrag, a sort of stone
Rain, water

Reign, rule as a king
Rein, a bridle

Raise, to set up
Rays, sun beams
Race, to run
Rase, to demolish
Red, a colour
Read, did read

Reddish, somewhat red

Radish, a root

Reed, a shrub

Read, in a book

Rere, the back part

Rear, to erect

Rest, ease
Wrest, to force

Retch, to vomit

Wretch, an unhappy man

Rhyme, in verse

Rime, a freezing mist

Rial, a foreign coin

Royal, princely

Rice, corn

Rise, advancement

Rye, corn

Wry, crooked

Ring, the bells
Wring, the hands
Rite, a ceremony
Right, just and true
Wright, a workman
Write, with a pen
Rode, did ride
Road, the highway
Row'd, did row

Koe, a kind of deer
Row, a rank

Rood, fourth part of an acre
Rude, impudent

Rome, a city

Room, part of a house

Rheum, spittle

Rote, by heart
Wrote, did write
Rough, not smooth
Ruff, a neckcloth
Sail, of a ship
Sale, selling

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Seer, a prophet

Sent, ordered away
Scent, smell
Scignor, lord
Senior, elder

Shoar, a prop
Shore, the sea-coast
Shewn, did shew
Shone, did shine
Site, situation
Cite, to summon
Sight, seeing

Sink, to go down
Cinque, five
Sloe, fruit,

Slow, tardy

So, thus

Sow, the seed

Sew, with the needle

Soal, of the shoe
Sole, a fish

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Sore, an ulcer

Soar, to mount upwards Stare, to look earnestly Stair, a step

Stains, spots

Stanes, the name of a place

Starling, a bird

Sterling, English money
Steal, to rob
Steel, metal

Stear, a young bullock

Steer, to guide a ship

Stile, for a passage
Style, for writing
Straight, not crooked
Strait, narrow
Succour, help
Sucker, a young twig
Subtil, cunning
Subtle, weight

Tacks, small nails
Tax, a rate

Tail, the end
Tale, a story

Tare, weight allowed
Tear, to rend in pieces
Team, of horses
Tcem, to go with young
Throw, did throw
Through, quite through
Their, of them
There in that place
Throne, a seat of state
Thrown, cast

The, a particle
Thee, yourself
Time, when
Thyme, an herb
To, unto
Too, likewise
Two, a couple

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