Homophones - CSEET English Business Communication Part 2

1. Cease - to stop

Seize – To take possession

2. Corpse – dead body

    Corps-  a body of troops

3. Complement- that which completes

    Compliment- Regard to courtesy.

4.Conscious- aware,

Conscientious – honest, obedient to one’s conscience.

5. Credible - Believable

Creditable - Worthy of praise and honors

6. Council - A group of men to give advice

Counsel - Advise

7. Defy - Challenge

Deify - To worship as a god

8. Descent - down ward slope

Dissent - differ

9. Diseased - Suffering form a disease

Deceased - Dead

10. Draugh - The quantity of liquid, drunk at a time, Current of air.

Draft - To draw up a rough sketch

11. Dual - Divided in Two parts

Duel - Fight into two

12. Eminent - Prominent , Famous

Imminent - Impending , about to happen

13. Emigrant - A man who leaves his country and settle in another

Immigrant - A man who comes to live in a foreign country.

14. Eligible - Fit to be chosen

Illegible - That which can not be read

15. Elicit - To draw out by question on answer

Illicit - Unlawful

16. Eruption - Bursting up

Irruption - Sudden, Invasion

17. Fair - Good, a Show

Fare - Passage , Money

18. Gate - Door

Gait - Manner of walking

19. Gamble - Play for stakes, Money

Gambol - To play ordance about

20. Hoard - To Store

Horde - A gang