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desert (a barren country) dessert (food)
dining room dinning
disappear disappoint
disavowal dissatisfaction dissimilar dissipate dissuade
decent (adjective) descent (downward slope or motion) dissent (a disagreement)
dual (adjective) duel (noun)
formally (in a formal way) formerly (in time past)
forth forty four fourth
freshman freshmen (not used as adjective)
gambling (wagering money on games of chance) gamboling (frisking or leaping with joy)
guard regard
hear here
hinder hindrance
holly (a tree) holy (hallowed, sacred) wholly (altogether)
hoping (from _hope_) hopping
instance (an example) instants (periods of time)
isle (an island) aisle (a narrow pa.s.sage)
its (possessive p.r.o.noun) it's (contraction of _it is_)
Johnson, Samuel Jonson, Ben
later (comparative of _late_) latter (the second)
lead (present tense) led (past tense)
lessen (verb) lesson (noun)
liable (expresses responsibility or disagreeable probability) likely (expresses probability)
loose (free, not bound) lose (to suffer the loss of)
maintain maintenance
nineteenth ninetieth ninety ninth
past (adjective, adverb, preposition) pa.s.sed (verb, past tense)
peace (a state of calm) piece (a fragment)
perceive perform persevere persuade purchase pursue
personal (private, individual) personnel (the body of persons engaged in some activity)
Philippines Filipino
plain (clear; adjective) plain (flat region; noun) plane (flat; adjective) plane (geometrical term; noun)
planed (past tense of _plane_) planned (past tense of _plan_)
pleasant please
precede proceed } succeed } these three are the exceed } "double _e_ group"
concede intercede recede supersede
pre ce dence (act or right of preceding) prec e dents (things said or done before, now used as authority or model)
presence (state of being present) presents (gifts)
prevail prevalent
princ.i.p.al (chief, leading, the leading official of a school, a sum of money) principle (a general truth)
quiet (still) quite (completely)
rain reign (rule of a monarch) rein (part of a harness)
respectfully ("Yours respectfully") respectively (in a way proper to each--should never be used to close a letter)
right rite (ceremony) write
shone (past tense of _s.h.i.+ne_) shown (past tense of _show_)
seize siege
sight (view, spectacle) site (situation, a plot of ground reserved for some use) cite (to bring forward as evidence)
speak speech
Spencer, Herbert (scientist) Spenser, Edmund (poet)
stationary (not moving) stationery (writing materials)
statue (a sculptured likeness) stature (height, figure) statute (a law)
