Level: upper-intermediate
Category: vocabulary
Topic: homophones

Homophones (1)

Use the correct word to complete the sentence

bare/bear       caught/cot        feat/feet        

flour/flower    higher/hire       which/witch

1. Though many people have climed Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind man to achieve that _______.
2. I can't _____ to see pictures of children suffering.
3. Business was so good that we've had to ______ 10 new people this month.
4. In medieval times, if you were accused of being a _______, it usually meant a death sentence.
5. Gasoline prices are _______ now that in any time in history.
6. At summer camp I slept in a ______ in a large tent with 3 other boys.
7. Bananas, ______ are mostly grown in tropical regions, contain a lot of potassium.
8. A lot of children spend the summer walking around in their _____ _____ (2 words)
9. It is essential for a bee to land on a _______ in order to pollinate crops.
10. The police finally ______ the people responsible for the robbery at the warehouse.
11. People with celiac disease cannot eat _________ made from wheat or any other grain that contains gluten.

Created:  2008-06-24
Updated:  2008-06-24

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