• hanger (one who hangs); hangar ( air plane shed)
• harrier (hawk, hound); hairier (more hairy)
• hart (deer); heart (blood pump)
• hay (grass); hey (attention getter)
• hew (to cut); hue (color)
• hoard (cache); horde (throng)
• holy (sacred); wholly (entirely); holey (full of holes)
• hoop (circle); whoop (cry)
• hostile (antagonistic); hostel (lodging)
• humorous (funny); humerus (bone)
• hurdle (jump); hurtle (throw)
• hypocritical (insincere); hypercritical (overly critical)
• idle (not busy); idol (image); idyll (poem)
• incite (to provoke action); insight (understanding)
• incredible (not believable); incredulous (skeptical)
• inequity (lacks fairness); iniquity (sin)
• ingenious (clever); ingenuous (naive)
• interstate (between states); intrastate (within a state)
• jam (fruit preserves, wedge tight); jamb (door post)
• jealousy (envy); jalousie (shutter)
• judicial (of the law); judicious (wise)
• kill (slay); kiln (oven)
• knave (rogue); nave (part of a church)
• knead (mix); need (require); kneed (a groin injury)
• knit (interlock); nit (insect egg)
• lamb (young sheep); lam (gangland slang for escape)
• lay (to place, secular); lei (garland)
• lea (meadow); lee (shelter)
• lead (to show the way; a soft metal; spacing between lines of type); led (showed the way)
• leak (escape); leek (vegetable)
• lean (thin, incline); lien (claim)
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