1. SOUL (n), SOIL (n, v), SOLE (n, adj) That man has no
.
He is the
of honour.
Splashes of paint
the wall. (PAST)
He is his father's
support.
I don't know a
here.
The
had a heavy dressing of manure.
He was a businessman to the
of his boots.
2. SHATTER (n, v), SHUTTER (n) The vase has
into splinters.
No chink of light came through the closed
.
Three houses had their window glass ground into
.
3. ILLUSION (n), ALLUSION (n) He wanted to shatter her
. (PL)
Not even the most distant
was made to it.
4. MODAL (adj), MODEL (n, v) She
for a living. (PRESENT)
He made each box on the
of the first.
verbs describe the speaker’s attitude to the action.
He
his behaviour on that of his father. (PAST)
I worked as a photographer's
.
5. HAIR (n), HARE (n), HEIR (n) The tortoise wins the race while the
is sleeping.
The property demised to the
.
The girls had their
banged low over their foreheads.
6. CON`TENT (n, adj, v), `CONTENT(S) (n) CONTEX (n), `CONTEST (n), CON`TEST (v) The lawyer
the claim. (PAST)
He emptied his pockets of their
.
He was
to live in the shadow.
The bag had broken and emptied its
along the road.
The sentence is translated without regard to the
.
You will have to
yourself with what you have.
To live in peace and
.
He was barred from the
.
7. LOGIC(AL) (n, adj), LOGICTIC(S) (n, adj) There is no
in spending money on useless things.
Her
process is impeccable.
is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption.
The word
derives from Greek λογική (logike), fem. of λογικός (logikos), "possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative", from λόγος logos, "word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle".
8. DRAUGHT(=DRAFT) /drɑːft/ (n, v), DRAUGHTS /drɑːfts/ (n singular), DROUGHT (n) He emptied the glass at a
.
He is allergic to
.
Daily and nightly
.
The blessed rain followed a
.
He is overage for the
.
The
must be free from errors or repugnances.
(British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces.
Large numbers of cattle fell in the
.
9. PARTY (n, adj), PUTTY (n, v) My appearance at the
was not very welcome.
He is
in her hands.
A general bankruptcy of reputation in both
.
The
was a great disappointment.
10. VERY (a, adj), VARY (v) Their
language is becoming unintelligible to us.
He lives in this
place.
Old people not like to
their habits.
That's not a
nice thing to say.
11. CAREER (n, v), CARRIER (n) He aspired to a
in medicine.
An aircraft is homing to its
.
He made a switchover to teaching in mid-
.
A catapult shoots planes from a
.
12. CRUMP (n, v), CRAMP (n, v), CRUMB (n, v) He finished the meal to the last
.
A pap of bread-
and milk.
I’m a little too
to know them words.
All these things
his progress.
Muscle
generally result from over exertion and dehydration.
13. CATTLE (n), KETTLE (n) Large numbers of
fell in the drought.
Salt encrusted on the bottom of the
.
Don't fill the
too full: it'll run over.
The land will feed a thousand head of
.
14. CONSCIENCE (n), CONSCIENTIOUS (adj), CONSCIOUS (adj), CONSCIOUSNESS (n), Fantasies swam in and out of his
.
If anything was imprinted on her
that night, it would be the twinkling silver lights.
Then he fell himself carried into the hospital and he lost
.
He has regained
after four days in a coma.
He was
of his limited achievements.
Most large families expand unintentionally, without
planning.
parents sometimes worry so much about jealousy.
He is a very
minister.
When I was allowed to go into the surgery he was
but too weak to move.
The patient was fully
during the operation.
She was
of her age and full of doubt about her worth.
15. CEDE (v), SEED (n, v) They
some of their rights. (PAST)
The
never came up.
This field is
with barley.
This is the share
in reinsurance.
16. CONTINUAL (adj), CONTINUOUS (adj), CONSTANT (adj) He had to recognize the truth of Eva's
criticism that he wasn't man enough.
Не gave
thought to these two questions.
The landscape has undergone
transformations.
These recordings are in sequence and
.
After days of
rain in the area the Telle River was in flood.
The Kirks spent the summer in a stale of
excitement.
When standing you sway slightly forwards and backwards
although you are unaware of it.
Nino Valenti's face was handsome though bloated by
drinking.
The management refused to deal with him because of his
disruptive activities.
police pressures were brought to bear against Card to get him to withdraw his statement.
Her
demands on me were affecting my work.
It was sad to see her the victim of
pain.
The world that people thought to be stable was instead undergoing
dynamic change.
This would keep society in a condition of
change.
17. COLON (n), COLUMN (n), COLONEL (n), COLOGNE (n)A general comes before a
.
The
is the last portion of the digestive system in most vertebrates.
The whole building bears on these
.
Use a
[ : ] before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a clause that can stand by itself.
This
always has a humorous angle.
lies on the River Rhine.
18. INTENT (n, adj), INTEND (v) He is
on doing his best.
What do you
by your words?
This remark is
for you.
He's done this with
.
19.HILL (n), HEEL (n), HEAL (v) the house was built against a
.
I have no faith in the virtue of herbs to
sickness.
I saw him coming up the
.
An "Achilles'
" means a person's principal weakness.
Don't let flies stick to your
.
Her sharp
left points in the carpet.
Old wounds have
kindly.
20. TANDEM (n, adj, adv), TENDON (n) They drove
.
You should have harnessed the two horses in
.
of Achilles.
A
is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone.
21. RUPTURE (n, v), RAPTURE (n, v) A place that strangers fell into
with. (pl.)
A
is not preferable to a patchwork peace. — Худой мир лучше доброй ссоры.
Each type of tendon
has its own signs and symptoms.
The
of the Church will kick-off the tribulation.
22. ADOPT(ED) (v), ADAPT(ED) (v) These tractors have been
.
Some firms
a take-it-or-leave-it attitude towards their customers.
A true son and an
one.
A play
for the radio.
23. PACK (n, v), PUCK (n), PECK (n, v) Birds
at the grapes. (PAST)
the peaches carefully so that they don't bruise.
Really great prices on ice hockey
. (pl.)
He likes hunting on horseback with a
of hounds.
The
was served at once.
is a mythological fairy or mischievous nature sprite.
People were
up like sardines.
She merely
at the partridge. (PAST)
24.PUDDLE (n, v), PADDLE (n, v) Bomb craters pockmarked surrounding rice
. (pl.)
Frost hardened the water of the
into ice. (pl.)
up that hole in the wall.
Ducks
in the pond. (PAST)
25. WORTH (n, adj), WORSE (n, adj) Give me a shilling's
of stamps.
He is not any the
for it.
It is not
mentioning.
Bad as it is, it could be
.