Homophones and Commonly Confused Words
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Common Homophones
- I'll, isle, aisle
- Eight, ate
- Bear, bare
- Be, bee, b
- Blue, blew
- Break, brake
- Buy, by, bye
- Sell, cell
- Sent, cent
- Dear, deer
- Die, dye
- Fair, fare
- Flee, flea
- Flower, flour
- Guest, guessed
- Heal, heel
- Hear, here
- Hole, whole
- Our, hour
- In, inn
- Its, it's
- New, knew
- Not, knot
- No, know
- Made, maid
- Male, mail
- Meet, meat
- Night, knight
- Pear, pair, pare
- Pale, pail
- Pray, prey
- Rain, reign, rein
- Real, reel
- Write, right, rite
- Road, rowed, rode
- Peace, piece
- Roll, role
- Sale, sail
- Sea, see, c
- Site, sight, cite
- Sore, soar
- Sole, soul
- Sun, son
- Stare, stair
- Steak, stake
- Steal, steel
- Tale, tail
- Through, threw
- To, too, two
- Vein, vain, vane
- Waste, waist
- Wait, weight
- Way, weigh
- Week, weak
- Would, wood
- Chord, cord
Globalization and Culture
- Americanized/global brand: A word known worldwide.
- Way of life
- Brain drain: Fuga de cerebros.
- Local produce
- Multinational corporations
- Clash of cultures: Cultural deficiencies.
- Sweatshops: Places where people work in poor conditions.
Urban Environments
- High-rise buildings: Skyscrapers.
- Green belt land
- No-go areas: Forbidden places.
- Residential areas
- Reclaimed land
- Infrastructure
- Slums
- Overcrowding: Sobrepoblación.
- Squalor: Suciedad.
- Congestion
- Sprawl: To spread out.
Business and Development
- Bold: Atrevido.
- Brand new: Nuevo.
- Scale: Balanza.
- Side effect: Unexpected effects.
- To build something from scratch: To build from zero.
- To draw up: To prepare something written.
- To drive prices sky-high: To make prices rise.
- To head upwards: Ascent.
- To keep up with: To increase at the same time as something else.
- To mass-produce: Mass production.
- To use something as a template: To use something as a model.