Confusing words – part 67
INCIDENT / OCCASION
As it was such a special , she permitted herself a small glass of champagne.
The police would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the .
Sara's party was quite an - there were over a hundred people there.
Two young people were seriously injured in a shooting on Saturday night.
I seem to remember that on that he was with his wife.
JUST / ONLY
Be careful – I washed the floor, and it’s still wet.
If I had studied harder. I would’ve passed the test.
Can you put your signature here?
There were four United fans in the room.
Where’s my phone? I had it now.
you can understand me.
LAPS / LAPSE
I can remember sitting in their lapslapse, their arms around my waist, their hands resting on my thigh.
On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapslapse.
The water lapslapse against the pillars of the boathouse.
It is an absolute disgrace the condition that our hospitals have been allowed to lapslapse into.
The race car driver had a lapslapse in memory and couldn’t remember how many lapslapse he had completed.
MADE / MAID
With his father at the head of the firm, he's got it .
In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily service.
On the bottom of the watch it said "Swiss-".
In California many illegal immigrants work as and gardeners.
The house was of wood with an iron roof.
The the bed and set the table.
MARITAL / MARTIAL / MARSHAL
The , or fighting arts are among humankind's oldest avocations.
If the wife deferred to the husband because of the relationship, that is another thing.
It is unlikely that the rebels will be able to as much firepower as the government troops.
You can't expect to live in a state of bliss.
The organisers need and bucket collectors to help them on the day.
In the opening part there are fight scenes woven around him to introduce us to his skills.
MIGHT / MITE
Very politely the little boy asked if he mitemight have another piece of cake.
His cold has developed into full blown ‘smoker's cough’ this morning, poor little mitemight.
In captive conditions, the red mitemight can live in cracks in and around the perch.
If this were just a question of her as a reporter that mitemight not have been a problem.
MONOGRAM / MONOGRAPH
They are publishing a series of on music in late medieval and Renaissance cities.
The maker's mark on the dishes is a distinctive , clearly composed of the initials ‘RF’.
It was the first book on this subject since the of L. Eisenhart in 1926.
It is signed with a , or perhaps a small drawing, which I will not even attempt to describe.
NAY / NEIGH
He pulled the reigns, forcing the horse to a stop with a loud nayneigh.
It is my pleasure, nayneigh my privilege, to introduce tonight's guest speaker.
The House of Commons can merely say yea or nayneigh to the executive judgment.
When generators are running all night the horses nayneigh and the dogs bark.
PACKED / PACT
He had an old toy car that was still pactpacked in its original box.
The United States and Canada have signed a free-trade pactpacked.
The snow has pactpacked down tightly, making the streets dangerous to walk on.
Big drug companies plan to form a pactpacked with the National Institutes of Health to share information.
We pactpacked a lot of sightseeing into our weekend in New York.
PI / PIE
is the constant created by the relationship of every diameter to its circle.
Pour the filling in the dish, and fold the flaps of dough over the borders of the filling.
The western Greek alphabet changed into a backwards loop shape.
Not so long ago, many people thought that bringing crime in New York under control was in the sky.
The student who could remember the value of to the most decimal places would be rewarded with a slice of .
