{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-homophones-hard",
 "id": "la-homophones-hard",
 "title": "Homophones: Tricky Pairs",
 "category": "language-arts",
 "subject": "English",
 "levels": [
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Harder homophone pairs and trios, with meanings.",
 "tags": [
  "homophones",
  "vocabulary"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Meaning and its partner",
 "cards": [
  [
   "accept",
   "To receive (partner: except)"
  ],
  [
   "except",
   "Leaving out (partner: accept)"
  ],
  [
   "affect",
   "To influence (a verb, usually) (partner: effect)"
  ],
  [
   "effect",
   "A result (a noun, usually) (partner: affect)"
  ],
  [
   "allowed",
   "Permitted (partner: aloud)"
  ],
  [
   "aloud",
   "Out loud (partner: allowed)"
  ],
  [
   "altar",
   "A table used in a ceremony (partner: alter)"
  ],
  [
   "alter",
   "To change (partner: altar)"
  ],
  [
   "assistance",
   "Help (partner: assistants)"
  ],
  [
   "assistants",
   "People who help (partner: assistance)"
  ],
  [
   "bald",
   "Having no hair (partner: bawled)"
  ],
  [
   "bawled",
   "Cried loudly (partner: bald)"
  ],
  [
   "band",
   "A group of musicians (partner: banned)"
  ],
  [
   "banned",
   "Not allowed (partner: band)"
  ],
  [
   "bazaar",
   "A market (partner: bizarre)"
  ],
  [
   "bizarre",
   "Very strange (partner: bazaar)"
  ],
  [
   "bough",
   "A large branch of a tree (partner: bow)"
  ],
  [
   "bow",
   "To bend at the waist (partner: bough)"
  ],
  [
   "brake",
   "A device that stops a car (partner: break)"
  ],
  [
   "break",
   "To crack or split (partner: brake)"
  ],
  [
   "canvas",
   "Heavy cloth (partner: canvass)"
  ],
  [
   "canvass",
   "To ask people for votes or opinions (partner: canvas)"
  ],
  [
   "capital",
   "A city that is the seat of government (partner: capitol)"
  ],
  [
   "capitol",
   "The building where a legislature meets (partner: capital)"
  ],
  [
   "cereal",
   "A breakfast food (partner: serial)"
  ],
  [
   "serial",
   "Happening in a series (partner: cereal)"
  ],
  [
   "cite",
   "To quote as a source (partners: sight, site)"
  ],
  [
   "sight",
   "The ability to see (partners: cite, site)"
  ],
  [
   "site",
   "A place (partners: cite, sight)"
  ],
  [
   "coarse",
   "Rough (partner: course)"
  ],
  [
   "course",
   "A path, or a class (partner: coarse)"
  ],
  [
   "complement",
   "Something that completes (partner: compliment)"
  ],
  [
   "compliment",
   "A kind remark (partner: complement)"
  ],
  [
   "council",
   "A group that makes decisions (partner: counsel)"
  ],
  [
   "counsel",
   "Advice (partner: council)"
  ],
  [
   "creak",
   "A squeaky noise (partner: creek)"
  ],
  [
   "creek",
   "A small stream (partner: creak)"
  ],
  [
   "desert",
   "A dry sandy place (partner: dessert)"
  ],
  [
   "dessert",
   "A sweet treat after a meal (partner: desert)"
  ],
  [
   "die",
   "To stop living (partner: dye)"
  ],
  [
   "dye",
   "Color for cloth (partner: die)"
  ],
  [
   "discreet",
   "Careful with secrets (partner: discrete)"
  ],
  [
   "discrete",
   "Separate and distinct (partner: discreet)"
  ],
  [
   "draft",
   "A rough version, or a current of air (partner: draught)"
  ],
  [
   "elicit",
   "To draw out (partner: illicit)"
  ],
  [
   "illicit",
   "Against the law (partner: elicit)"
  ],
  [
   "ensure",
   "To make certain (partner: insure)"
  ],
  [
   "insure",
   "To buy insurance (partner: ensure)"
  ],
  [
   "faint",
   "To pass out, or weak (partner: feint)"
  ],
  [
   "feint",
   "A fake move (partner: faint)"
  ],
  [
   "flair",
   "A natural talent (partner: flare)"
  ],
  [
   "flare",
   "A bright flame or signal (partner: flair)"
  ],
  [
   "flew",
   "Past tense of fly (partners: flu, flue)"
  ],
  [
   "flu",
   "An illness (partners: flew, flue)"
  ],
  [
   "foul",
   "Bad or unfair (partner: fowl)"
  ],
  [
   "fowl",
   "A bird such as a chicken (partner: foul)"
  ],
  [
   "gorilla",
   "A large ape (partner: guerrilla)"
  ],
  [
   "guerrilla",
   "A fighter in a small group (partner: gorilla)"
  ],
  [
   "grate",
   "To shred; a metal frame (partner: great)"
  ],
  [
   "great",
   "Very good or large (partner: grate)"
  ],
  [
   "groan",
   "A low sound of pain (partner: grown)"
  ],
  [
   "grown",
   "Got bigger (partner: groan)"
  ],
  [
   "hangar",
   "A building for planes (partner: hanger)"
  ],
  [
   "hanger",
   "A tool for hanging clothes (partner: hangar)"
  ],
  [
   "hoarse",
   "Rough-sounding voice (partner: horse)"
  ],
  [
   "horse",
   "A large animal people ride (partner: hoarse)"
  ],
  [
   "idle",
   "Not working (partners: idol, idyll)"
  ],
  [
   "idol",
   "A person you greatly admire (partner: idle)"
  ],
  [
   "lessen",
   "To make smaller (partner: lesson)"
  ],
  [
   "lesson",
   "Something you learn in class (partner: lessen)"
  ],
  [
   "levee",
   "A wall that holds back a river (partner: levy)"
  ],
  [
   "levy",
   "A tax or fee (partner: levee)"
  ],
  [
   "loan",
   "Money lent (partner: lone)"
  ],
  [
   "lone",
   "Alone (partner: loan)"
  ],
  [
   "medal",
   "An award (partners: meddle, metal)"
  ],
  [
   "meddle",
   "To butt in (partner: medal)"
  ],
  [
   "metal",
   "A hard shiny material (partner: medal)"
  ],
  [
   "miner",
   "A person who digs underground (partner: minor)"
  ],
  [
   "minor",
   "Younger than an adult, or small in importance (partner: miner)"
  ],
  [
   "moral",
   "A lesson about right and wrong (partner: morale)"
  ],
  [
   "morale",
   "The spirit of a group (partner: moral)"
  ],
  [
   "naval",
   "Of the navy (partner: navel)"
  ],
  [
   "navel",
   "The belly button (partner: naval)"
  ],
  [
   "pedal",
   "A foot lever on a bike (partner: peddle)"
  ],
  [
   "peddle",
   "To sell goods from place to place (partner: pedal)"
  ],
  [
   "pore",
   "A tiny hole in the skin (partners: pour, poor)"
  ],
  [
   "pour",
   "To make liquid flow (partners: pore, poor)"
  ],
  [
   "poor",
   "Having little money (partners: pore, pour)"
  ],
  [
   "principal",
   "Head of a school, or main (partner: principle)"
  ],
  [
   "principle",
   "A basic rule or belief (partner: principal)"
  ],
  [
   "profit",
   "Money gained (partner: prophet)"
  ],
  [
   "prophet",
   "A person who foretells the future (partner: profit)"
  ],
  [
   "rap",
   "A quick knock, or a kind of music (partner: wrap)"
  ],
  [
   "wrap",
   "To cover with paper (partner: rap)"
  ],
  [
   "rapped",
   "Knocked quickly (partner: wrapped)"
  ],
  [
   "wrapped",
   "Covered (partner: rapped)"
  ],
  [
   "raise",
   "To lift up (partners: rays, raze)"
  ],
  [
   "rays",
   "Beams of light (partner: raise)"
  ],
  [
   "role",
   "A part in a play (partner: roll)"
  ],
  [
   "roll",
   "To turn over and over, or a bun (partner: role)"
  ],
  [
   "root",
   "The underground part of a plant (partner: route)"
  ],
  [
   "route",
   "A way to get somewhere (partner: root)"
  ],
  [
   "shear",
   "To cut wool from a sheep (partner: sheer)"
  ],
  [
   "sheer",
   "Very thin, or steep (partner: shear)"
  ],
  [
   "stationary",
   "Not moving (partner: stationery)"
  ],
  [
   "stationery",
   "Paper and envelopes (partner: stationary)"
  ],
  [
   "tide",
   "The rise and fall of the sea (partner: tied)"
  ],
  [
   "tied",
   "Fastened with a knot (partner: tide)"
  ],
  [
   "vain",
   "Too proud of your looks (partners: vane, vein)"
  ],
  [
   "vane",
   "A pointer that shows wind direction (partners: vain, vein)"
  ],
  [
   "vein",
   "A tube that carries blood (partners: vain, vane)"
  ],
  [
   "wail",
   "A long loud cry (partners: whale, wale)"
  ],
  [
   "whale",
   "A huge sea mammal (partner: wail)"
  ],
  [
   "waist",
   "The middle of your body (partner: waste)"
  ],
  [
   "waste",
   "To use badly; garbage (partner: waist)"
  ],
  [
   "weather",
   "Conditions in the air outside (partner: whether)"
  ],
  [
   "whether",
   "Word that shows a choice (partner: weather)"
  ],
  [
   "which",
   "Asks to choose one (partner: witch)"
  ],
  [
   "witch",
   "A woman in stories who uses magic (partner: which)"
  ],
  [
   "yoke",
   "A wooden frame joining oxen (partners: yolk)"
  ],
  [
   "yolk",
   "The yellow part of an egg (partner: yoke)"
  ]
 ]
}