• raise (lift); raze (demolish)
• rap (knock); wrap (enfold); rapt (engrossed)
• read (peruse); reed (plant, musical instrument)
• real (actual); reel (spool)
• reality (actuality); realty (property)
• reek (smell); wreak (punish)
• register (record); registrar (record keeper)
• reluctant (loathe to act); reticent (loathe to speak)
• rest (remainder, quiet); wrest (to gain by force)
• retch (to vomit); wretch (miserable person)
• review (re-examine); revue (musical show)
• riffle (shuffle); rifle (gun, groove, search)
• rigor (severity); rigger (one who rigs)
• ring (circle, sound); wring (squeeze)
• rite (ceremony); right (correct); write
• road (way); rode (didn't walk); rowed (didn't swim)
• roe (fish eggs); rho (Greek letter); row (propel a boat)
• room (space); rheum (mucous discharge)
• root (plant part, cheer); route (planned way)
• rote (repetition); wrote (put down on paper)
• rough (not smooth); ruff (collar)
• royal (regal); roil (to cloud)
• rude (impolite); rood (crucifix); rued (regretted)
• ruin (destroy); rune (character; magic charm)
• rung (step); wrung (squeezed)
• rye (grain); wry (crooked)
• sachet (perfume); sashay (strut)
• sail (canvas); sale (exchange)
• sanitorium (hospital); sanitarium (health resort)
• scene (view, play subdivision); seen (watched)
• scull (oar); skull (head bone)
• seam (junction); seem (appear)
• seaman (sailor); semen (sperm)
• sear (to dry up); seer (prophet); sere (withered)
• seed (plant ovule); cede (yield)
• seine (net); sane (mentally balanced)
• seller (vender); cellar (basement)
• serf (laborer); surf (waves)
• serge (cloth); surge (to billow)
• session (meeting); cession (surrendering)
• shanty (shack); chantey (song sung by sailors)
• shear (to clip); sheer (swerve, diaphanous, perpendicular) |