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absence; absence, as in, you're absence is worse than your tardiness absolutely; absolutely, as in, you must absolutely pay your taxes abundance; abundance, meaning plentiful academic; academic, as in, learning to spell is an academic excersise accomplishment; accomplishment, as in, getting 100% for 50 words would be a great accomplishment according; according, as in, the clock strikes according to the hour accuracy; accuracy, as in, I will grade this test with great accuracy accurate; accurate, as in, an atomic clock is very accurate accuse; accuse, as in, I can not accuse you of cheating across; across, as in to drive across a bridge activities; activities, as in, at camp I participate in many activities actual; actual, as in, airplane models are rarely built to actual size actually; actually, as in, I actually like giving spelling tests address; address, as in, my e mail address is jaylick@inter access dot com admiration; admiration, as in, I have a great admiration for war veterans advantage; advantage, as in, some basket-ball players have an advantage because of their height afraid; afraid, as in, are you afraid of the dark? against; against, as in, I'm against those who have no respect for spelling aggressor; aggressor, meaning one that engages in aggression allowance; allowance, as in, do you get a weekly allowance from your parents almost; almost, as in, an almost correctly spelled word is incorrect although; although, as in, although you have spell checkers, you can still misspell words American; American, as in, who is your favorite american president among; among, as in, And the Word became flesh and [[inpt PHON]]_dw1/>EH/ltt_2UX\>m>UXN_AXs[[inpt TEXT]] amount; amount, as in, the man wrote a check in the amount of $15 answer; answer, as in, the answer to a question apartment; apartment, as in, I live in a two-bedroom apartment apology; apology, as in, if you hurt someone, you owe them an apology arrest; arrest, as in, the police are going to arrest you article; article, as in, I have written an article about the dangers of rela-tih-vism athlete; athlete, as in, you don't have to be an athlete in order to spell athletic; athletic, as in, bike riding is an athletic pasttime attack; attack, as in, the attack on pearl harbor attitude; attitude, as in, attitude problems are not well received by police officers author; author, as in, the author of into the wardrobe is c s lewis autobiography; auto-buyography, meaning the life story of the author available; available, as in, the accused politician was not available for comment average; average, as in, I will average your test results as a percentage bare; bare, meaning naked bargain; bargain, as in, considering the advantages of good spelling, master spell is a bargain bear; bear, meaning to carry, or an animal beautiful; beautiful, as in, it is a beautiful day today beauty; beauty, as in, sleeping beauty becoming; becoming, as in, you are becoming a better speller belief; belief, as in he had a strong belief believe; believe, as in they strongly believe it believing; believing, as in, seeing is believing board; board, meaning a plank of wood bored; bored, meaning uninterested brake; brake, meaning stop break; break, meaning smash buy; buy, meaning purchase by; by, meaning next to carrying; carrying, as in is that a gun you're carrying catalog; caddalog, meaning a publication of items category; categorrey, meaning belonging to a classification celebrate; celebreight, as in, improved spelling is a reason to celebreight central; central, meaning middle century; century, meaning a period of one hundred years certain; certain, as in, you can be certain that I'm always right challenge; challenge, as in, a challenge can be a struggle changing; changing, as in, the changing of seasons can be beautiful climbed; climbed, as in Jack climbed the beanstawk clothes; clothes, meaning the stuff you wear in order not to be naked coarse; coarse, meaning ruff coming; coming, as in, the police are coming to get you commercial; commercial, meaning of, or relating to commerce completely; completely, as in, that's completely insane composition; composition, as in, Brohm's piano conchertoe #2 is a beautiful composition concentrate; concentrate, meaning to direct or draw toward a common center concern; concern, as in, eating right is a health concern confident; confident, meaning marked by assurance continually; continually, as in, it continually snows in chicago during the winter continuous; continuous, meaning un interrupted in time contribution; contribution, meaning a donation course; course, meaning a class at school courteous; curteous, as in, a curteous man opens a door for a lady courtesy; courtesy, meaning polite behavior criticism; criticism, as in, a bad movie ought to get a lot of criticism crown; craown, meaning the hat kings wear customer; customer, meaning one who purchases goods or services dangerous; dangerous, as in, playing with matches is dangerous dealt; dealt, as in, I've dealt with your kind before decide; decide, as in, did you decide to take this test decision; decision, as in, make a decision between chocolate and vanilla defenseless; defenseless, as in, a baby is defenseless definition; definition, meaning a statement conveying the meaning of something democracy; democracy, as in, democracy itself does not innsure freedom demonstrated; demonstrated, as in, windows demonstrated poor system design depression; depression, meaning feeling sad description; description, as in a discription of an apple is it is crunchy desperation; desperation, as in, the rabbit struggled in desperation to get free destroy; destroy, as in, it is not nice to destroy other peoples work destruction; destruction, as in, the destruction of the Iraqi army occurred during the persian gulf war determination; dehtermination, as in, spelling better requires dehtermination determine; determine, as in, bad executives determine policy with a magic 8 ball develop; develop, as in, boys and girls develop into men and women development; development, as in, the early stages of construction are called development dictionary; dictionary, as in, the dictionary always has the correct spelling difference; difference, as in, there is a great difference between cats and dogs difficulty; difficulty, as in, I have difficulty defining words diminish; diminish, as in, the campfire slowly diminished into smoldering ashes dining room; dining room, as in, we had dinner in the dining room disagree; disagree, meaning to not agree discoveries; discoveries, meaning things or places that have been found discuss; discuss, as in, we need to discuss your poor grades discussion; discussion, as in, the professor conducted a discussion on spelling disease; disease, as in, cancer is a disease distinction; distinction, as in, you ought to make the distinction between right and wrong distinguished; distinguished, as in, the apple was easily distinguished from the oranges divide; divide, meaning the math function divine; divine, meaning to refer to god division; division, as in, doctrinal errers caused division amongst christian believers doctor; doctor, as in, is there a doctor in the house dominant; dominant, as in, the large dog was dominant over the smaller dogs dormitories; dormmit-tories, meaning the rooms where college students live doughnut/donut; donut, as in, one donut is never enough for a poleece man easily; easily, as in, if you practice your spelling, you can easily achieve 100% edition; edition, as in, the robbery was reported in the weekend edition of the newspaper education; education, as in, a good education can get you a better job eighty; eighty, meaning the number one more than seventy-nine either; either, as in eyether one is fine elegant; elegant, as in, in her prom dress, she looked elegant elementary; elementary, as in, elementary school is known to some as grammar school eliminate; eliminate, meaning to get rid of emergency; emergency, as in, you only dial 9 1 1 in an emergency emptiness; emptiness, meaning without substance empty; empty, meaning the opposite of full encouragement; encouragement, as in, we gave the child encouragement to do well in school enemies; enemies, meaning the opposite of friends enemy; enemy, meaning the bad guy enough; enough, as in, I've had enough to drink entertainment; entertainment, as in, masterspell is a good learning tool and great entertainment entirely; entirely, meaning completely entrance; ehntrince, as in, you found thee ehntrince, now can you find the exit? equipment; equipment, as in, the firemen cannot work without their equipment escape; escape, meaning to get free or avoid capture every; every, as in, you must get every word correct in order to achieve 100% excellent; excellent, meaning exceptionally good expense; expense, meaning cost experience; experience, as in, what's your experience with computers experiment; experiment, as in, it is dangerous to experiment with drugs explanation; explanation, as in, you ought to have an explanation if you arrive late extremely; extremely, as in, the sun is extremely hot fantasy; fantasy, meaning imaginatively ficticious favorite; favorite, as in, chocolate is my favorite ice cream flavor favorite; favorite, as in, my favorite ice cream flavor is double-fudge chocolate chip fortunately; fortunately, as in, fortunately Master Spell helps your spelling forward; forward, meaning the opposite of reverse foundation; foundation, as in, learning to spell is a good foundation for writing fourteen; fourt-teen, meaing the number one more than thirt-teen friend; friend, meaning a person you know, like and trust friendliness; friendlyness, meaning the quality of being friendly fundamental; fundamental, meaning basic funeral; funeral, as in, many people were crying at the funeral furniture; furniture, as in, kids should not jump up and down on the furniture further; further, as in, the rest stop is only a little bit further up the road gauge/gage; gauge, meaning measure glamorous/glamourous; glamorous, meaning full of glammor glamour/glamor; glamur, meaning alluring charm goggles; goggles, as in, you wear your goggles to protect your eyes in the lab gorilla; gorilla, meaning a large primate government; government, meaning a body that governs grey/gray; gray, as in, gray is such a gloomy color grief; grief, meaning a painful sorrow guard; guard, as in to stand guard healthy; healthy, as in, the wife just had a healthy baby girl hear; hear, meaning to perceive by ear heard; heard, meaning past tense of, hear height; height, meaning the vertical measurement here; here, meaning in this place heroes; heero's, plural form meaning those who risk their lives to save others huge; huge, as in, the pentium 2 is huge compared to the power pc gee 3 hurrying; hurrying, meaning to move rapidly illusion; illusion, meaning airroneous belief or perception imaginary; imaginary, meaning that which exists only in the imagination imagine; imagine, meaning the act of forming a mental picture incredible; incredible, meaning beyond belief initiate; initiate, meaning starting the first step insulation; insulation, meaning a barrier that prevents passage integrate; integrate, meaning to add parts to make a whole intelligence; intelligence, meaning the capacity and ability to think interest; interest, meaning opposite of bored know; no, meaning too be certain lead; led, meaning heavy metal length; length, meaning the measurement library; library, meaning a collection of literature loose; loose, as in the knot is loose lose; lose, as in you looz, i win lying; lying, as in lying down magazine; magazine, as in you have a lot of bullets in your magazine mathematics; mathematics, as in, arithmetic is simple mathematics meant; meant, as in that's how it was meant to be meat; meat, meaning edible flesh of animals medicine; medicine, meaning the field of ailing sickness meet; meet, meaning encounter minutes; minits, meaning the division of 1 sixtieth of an hour mirror; mirror, meaning something that reflects mouth; mouth, as in, you eat and talk with your mouth neither; neither, as in, neither here nor there ninth; ninth, as in bey toe ven's ninth symphany no; no, meaning the opposite of yes opposite; opposite, as in, the opposite of correct is incorrect original; original, meaning first, opposite of copy paid; paid, as in i paid too much for this muffler partner; partner, as in, my bridge partner bid us to game peace; peace, as in, small children allow no peace in the home perceive; perceive, meaning to sense percent; %, as in congress spends 25% of our gross domestic product perception; perception, as in, the false perception is that Macs are irrelevant performance; performance, as in, the G 3 gives better performance than the pentium 2 permit; permit, as in, the genie will permit me one more wish phase; phase, as in, what phase is the moon in physical; physical, meaning relating to the body physician; physician, meaning doctor piece; piece,as in, that piece of grandma's pie was delicious pigeon; pigeon, meaning that dirty but delicious park bird that burt likes pitiful; pitiful, meaning sad planning; planning, as in i am planning to clean my gun pleasant; pleasant, as in, a tornado is not a pleasant sight poison; poison, as in, mr. yuck warns you not to drink poison pole; pole, as in, the north pole politician; politician, as in, the politician pandered to minorities pollute; pollute, meaning to make unfit for life by addition of waste possible; possible, as in, anything is possible if you try possibly; possibly, meaning capable of happening poverty; poverty, meaning condition of being poor practice; practice, as in, practice makes perfect precious; precious, meaning valuable or cherished prefer; prefer, as in, I prefer coffee with my breakfast preference; preference, as in, I like my eggs scrambled, what's your preference? preparation; preparation, as in, using Master Spell is good preparation for your spelling test prepare; prepare, as in, I need to prepare for tomorrows spelling test prescription; prescription, as in, My prescription was filled at Walgreens preventive; preh-ventive, as in, the best prescription is preh-ventive health previous; previous, I hope you spelled the previous word correctly primitive; primitive, meaning an early basic form probably; probably, as in, you probably don't remember the talking moose procedure; procedure, as in, a recipe is a procedure process; process, as in, I'm in the process of giving you a test purpose; purpose, as in, my sole purpose is to teach you spelling words quantity; quantity, as in, what quantity of apples did you buy quarter; quarter, as in, we had a quarter moon last night quiet; quiet, as in, if you want me to be quiet, turn down the volume rain; rain, meaning water falling from the sky realize; realize, as in, do you realize what day it is? really; really, as in I really want to be Jay Licktenauer rebel; rebel, meaning one who rebels receive; receive, as in, did you receive anything for Christmas recognize; recognize, as in, can you recognize my voice in a crowd? reference; reference, as in the dictionary is a reference book regard; regard, as in, please regard the rights of others relative; relative, as in, although he was my relative, I cut him out of my will relief; relief, as in, it's a relief to know the sky isn't falling relieve; relieve, meaning to free from pain anxiety or stress repetitive; repetitive, meaning having a tendecy to repeat research; research, as in, much research has led us to believe that we are correct responsibility; responsibility, as in, it's your responsibility to brush your teeth restaurant; restaurant, as in, I have a favorite German restaurant safety; safety, as in, you wear your seatbelt for your safety schedule; schedule, as in, my train is always right on schedule science; science, as in, my favorite science class was physics scissors; siszers, as in, the tip for the day is don't run with siszers secretary; secretary, meaning one employed to handle correspondence several; several, as in, there are several ways to cook an egg significance; significance, meaning being significant sizable/sizeable; [[inpt PHON]]_sAYzEH/bUXl[[inpt TEXT]], meaning of considerable size skier; skeeer, meaning one who skees skillful/skilful; skillful, as in, a carpenter is very skillful with wood source; source, meaning origin speak; speak, meaning talk speech; speech, meaning the act of speaking strategy; strategy, as in, chess is a game of strategy strength; strength, meaning the trait of being strong strenuous; strehnuous, meaning requiring great effort stretch; stretch, as in, you ought to stretch before excersising strict; strict, as in, I'm on a strict [[inpt PHON]]_d1AYEHt[[inpt TEXT]] of beef, all I eat is stayke strictly; strictly, as in, I strictly forbid cheating on a test studying; studying, as in, can you get an ay without studying for a test? summary; summary, meaning consice form surprise; surprise, meaning unexpected encounter technical; technical, as in, setting up a cellular phone site requires technical knowledge than; than, as in more than then; then, as in that was then though; though, meaning however together; together, as in, the family gets together for the holidays tomorrow; tomorrow, meaning the day after today tournament; tournament, meaning a series of contests tragedy; tragedy, as in, the story of romeo and jewlyet is a tragedy traveler/traveller; traveller, meaning one who travels travelled/traveled; travelled, as in, I travelled through the internet to get [[inpt PHON]]_t1UW_2y1UW[[inpt TEXT]] typing; typing, meaning what your doing with the keyboard undergoing; undergoing, as in, I'm undergoing writer's block usually; usually, as in, we usually go to church on Sunday vacancy; vacancy, as in, there was no vacancy at the inn volume; volume, as in, if you can't understand what i'm saying, turn up the volume weather; weather, as in rain and snow weird; weeird, meaning strange wherever; wherever, as in, if you have a powerbook, you can use Master Spell wherever you want whether; whether, as in whether or not whole; whole, meaning complete willful/wilful; willful, meaning voluntary woman; woman, meaning an adult female person women; women, plural form meaning adult female people woolen/woollen; woolen, meaning made from sheep writing; writing, as in, knowing how to spell makes writing easier