Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Vocab Quiz- IV (homophones)

Hello friends,

This quiz was based on homophones [ homo-similiar + phonos-sound].Homophones are words with the same sound but different meanings.Such words at times occur as pairs, at times as triplets or also as quadruplets

eg of homophone pairs : its/it's,of/off,stationery/stationary,discreet/discrete etc......
eg of triplets :  bite/byte/bight,censor/censure/sensor,cite/sight/site etc .......
eg of quadruplets : rite/write/right/Wright,year/ear/hear/here etc .......

In CAT these words are evaluated through a question category called substitution based questions.This quiz was created to help you work on these type of words.

Answers

1) advice [ advice is a noun/advise is a verb]*

2) effect [ affect means influence/effect means a result]

3) rites

4) practise [ practice is a noun/practise is a verb]

5) censorious [ censure - critical/censor - edit]

* [words ending in -ice are nouns and those in -ise are verbs]

Here is a list of a few homophones I could think of :
  • compliment/complement
  • proscribe/prescribe
  • council / counsel
  • confident/confidant
  • opposite/apposite
  • canvas/canvass
  • altar/alter
  • access/excess
  • accessory/accessary
  • augur/auger
  • broach/brooch
  • coarse/course
  • cousin/cozen
  • creek/creak
  • hangar/hanger
  • grate/great
  • gamble/gambol
  • license/licence
  • mall/maul
  • foreword/forward
  • freeze/frieze
  • rote/wrote
  • whit/wit
  • whine/wine
  • root/rout
  • program/programme (these have been contributed by Priyanka)
  • hoard/horde
  • knot/not
  • knotty/naughty
  • price/prize
  • reck/wreck
  • bear/bare (contributed by Namrata)
  • ax/axe
  • awed/odd
  • cot/caught
  • marry/Mary/merry
  • would/wood
  • tail/tale
  • ascent/accent
  • bough/bow
  • sea/see
  • chalk/chock
  • ad/add
  • air/err
  • aisle/isle/i'll
  • allowed/aloud
If you can think of any interesting homophones do post it in the comment section of this post.Let's try and compile a list of homophones that would help you guys with your preparation.This would be an ongoing activity for the next 4 months.Hopefully, by October end we would have a comprehensive list of homophones and often misused words.

So get,set and go !!!!!!

Hope you guys wont disappoint me.
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17 comments:

  1. aditiJuly 8, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    thanks a lot mam. it was very helpful

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  2. UnknownJuly 9, 2010 at 8:23 AM

    Ma'am is there a difference between adviser and advisor? I found mixed answers on Google search..

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  3. EngQuizzitiveJuly 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM

    Dear Priyanka,

    As per my understanding there is no difference in meaning between the two words.
    This is also as per the online dictionary (www.thefreedictionay.com)

    ad·vis·er or ad·vi·sor (d-vzr)
    n.
    1. One that advises, such as a person or firm that offers official or professional advice to clients.
    2. An educator who advises students in academic and personal matters.

    This pair is similiar to enquiry/inquiry

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  4. KanchanJuly 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM

    can u help me wid d difference between accept n except? are they also homophones?

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  5. UnknownJuly 9, 2010 at 1:11 PM

    Hi Maam,

    Thank you for initiating this exercise.It's wonderful.

    Do the words 'intense' and 'intents' qualify as homophones?

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  6. UnknownJuly 9, 2010 at 1:48 PM

    Thank you Ma'am :)

    Though we could use the words in the pair interchangeably, my curiosity led me to a piece of information I'd like to share http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-enquiry-and-inquiry/

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  7. EngQuizzitiveJuly 9, 2010 at 6:26 PM

    Dear Priyanka,

    Thnx a lot for ur inputs....

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  8. UnknownJuly 9, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    Mention not Ma'am :)
    I'll try to contribute as and when I can :)

    Other homophones I could think of are:
    program/programme
    hoard/horde
    knot/not
    price/prize
    reck/wreck

    A couple of links I thought could be useful:

    http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-list.html

    http://www.homophone.com/results.php?how=begin&searchfor=A

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  9. GLISIA SERRAOJuly 10, 2010 at 1:06 PM

    DEAR MADAM,
    THANKS A LOT. THE QUIZ WAS VERY INTERESTING.

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  10. Namrita AnchanJuly 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    Hello Ma'am

    I have loved all the quizzes so far.
    I have put down some homophones I could think of:
    -Bear/Bare
    Bear(noun) & Bear(verb)
    -ax/axe/acts
    -awed/odd
    -cot/caught
    -marry/merry/Mary
    -would/wood
    -tail/tale
    -ascent/assent
    -bough/bow
    -sea/see
    -chalk/chock
    -ad/add
    -air/err
    -aisle/I'll/isle
    -allowed/aloud.

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  11. EngQuizzitiveJuly 10, 2010 at 6:40 PM

    Dear Dipen,

    They are not homophones.You need to be careful of the influence of regional languages while pronouncing English words.

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  12. EngQuizzitiveJuly 10, 2010 at 8:25 PM

    Difference between among and amongst (asked by Sanchita Dasgupta)

    They are synonymous. Amongst is the older form, and is dying. Nowadays, amongst is listed in most dictionaries as a variant of among, but in the Webster's 1913 edition, it is the other way around: among appears as a variant of amongst

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  13. SanchitaJuly 11, 2010 at 12:13 AM

    Are you sure? I think I came across a question somewhere that differentiated between the two. "Among" was the right answer, whereas I thought it was "amongst". Anyway, the net time I come across it, i shall make a note of it :)

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  14. wordofulJuly 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM

    Dear Sanchita,

    Yes, I am quite sure.
    Another source quoted this :

    Among’ is more frequent in American English whereas ‘amongst’ occurs more often in British English.
    2.Amongst is mostly used in a dramatic or poetic context whereas among is commonly used with the plural objects of the preposition.
    3.Among is more popular in U.S. whereas amongst in U.K.

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  15. RahulJuly 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM

    here are a few difficult ones I got from a website :

    toxin/tocsin
    annalist/analyst
    bight/byte
    copse/corpse
    bourn/born

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  16. AnonymousJuly 13, 2010 at 11:49 AM

    Are corporal and corporeal also homophones?

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  17. suzzeeJuly 19, 2010 at 6:24 PM

    Ma'am the quiz was very useful
    these are some words which I know
    critique- critic
    wins- wince
    lithe-lith
    philtre-filter
    dais-dice
    paene-pain-pane
    loath-loathe

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