accept/except climatic/climactic entomology/etymology premier/premiere
access/excess coarse/course exceptional exceptionable principal/principle
affect/effect complement/compliment explicit/implicit prosecute/persecute
allude/elude confident/confidant faze/phase rain/reign/rein
allusion/illusion conscious/conscience fourth/forth red/read
ambiguous/ambivalent council/counsel hardy/hearty resent/recent
anecdote/antidote defuse/diffuse hole/whole right/write/rite
assent/ascent desert/dessert hour/our seen/scene
aural/oral devise/device incidence/incidents stationary/stationery
averse/adverse discreet/discrete ingenuous/ingenious story/storey
beside/besides dissent/descent loose/lose taught/taut
bizarre/bazaar elicit/illicit moral/morale than/then
breath/breathe emigrate/immigrate palette/palate they're/their/there
canvas/canvass eminent/imminent patience/patients threw/through
carrot/caret/carat empathy/sympathy peak/peek/pique whether/weather
cite/sight ensure/insure perimeter/parameter you're/your

 

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