McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book

Lesson 203

Words sometimes incorrectly pronounced alike, but which should be carefully discriminated.

line	loin	creek	crick	sex	sects
loam	loom	pint	point	yon	yawn
lose	loose	sat	sot	least	lest
morn	mourn	phase	face	scrawl	scroll
rout	route	laud	lord	tents	tense
stalk	stock	east	yeast	with	withe
can	ken	dawn	don	close	clothes
blanch	blench	dose	doze	coarse	corse
want	wont	wen	when	white	wight
wax	whacks	alms	arms	moor	more

Lesson 204

Words nearly alike in Sound, to be carefully distinguished.

as say’	es say’	ep’ic	ep’och
de cease’	dis ease’	bea’con	beck’on
de scent’	dis sent’	coffin	cough’ing
de vice’	de vise’	grist’ly	gris’ly
huz za’	hus sar’	di’vers	di’verse
in tense’	in tents’	cho’ral	cor’al
a loud’	al lowed’	gant’let	gaunt’let
im merse’	a merce’	mu’sic	mu’cic
af fect’	ef fect’	rad’ish	red’dish
e lude’	al lude’	sculp’tor	sculpt’ure
Cas’tile	cast’-steel	hum’ble	um’bel