Confusing words – part 69
AIR / ERR / HEIR
The company operates out of modern offices and expensive hotel suites to create an of respectability.
"To is human, to forgive divine, as the old saying goes," Bucknor said.
He'll his views on the war whether people want to listen or not.
25 people have replied to the invitation, but you’d rather on the side of caution and put out 30 chairs.
As soon as the war started, any broadcasts with a military theme were taken off the .
The to the throne went flying in a hot balloon.
ARBITRATE / MEDIATE
Negotiators were called in to between the two sides.
I've been asked to between the opposing sides.
An outside adviser has been brought in to the dispute between the management and the union.
The two envoys have succeeded in an end to the war.
BARE / NUDE
Don't walk around outside in your feet.
She once posed for a magazine.
A glimpse of his torso set my pulse racing.
sunbathing is only allowed on certain beaches.
BLEW / BLUE
The explosion the building sky-high.
He's been a bit since she left him.
The letter away and I had to run after it.
His humour is a bit too for my tastes.
Ann a few notes on the trumpet.
She the colouring pencil on to the floor.
BREATH / BREATHE
Please tell me what happened. I promise I won't breathbreathe a word.
Without pausing to draw breathbreathe she told me everything.
The firefighters wore respirators to help them breathbreathe in the smoke-filled house.
Angela's so cheerful and lively - she's like a breathbreathe of fresh air when she visits.
CANNON / CANON
I was rushing along with my head down when I into an old lady walking the other way.
He is not the only actor to impersonate a butler in the Wodehouse canoncannon.
He's seen as something of a loose canoncannon by other team members.
The turning point probably came when the General Convention revised the canoncannon on divorce and remarriage.
CHEAP / CHEEP
If you want a qualified accountant, their services don't come .
A bird uttered its last '.' And right above the oak tree the first star shone.
He bought some shoes that fell apart after a couple of months.
The little birds in the tree kept up a constant of complaint, but it didn't break cover.
I wish you'd stop making jokes about my friends.
COMPACT / CONTRACT
We placed the stone at 10 inches thick, then it to 8.5 inches, then cut it with the grader.
In spoken English, "do not" often to "don't".
A recession is a period when the economy is .
Cars had the snow until it was like ice.
CONSOLE / CONDOLE
I most sincerely with you for the loss of your dear little girl.
He tried to her, but she kept saying it was all her own fault.
You know, really I was just trying to him and comfort him.
President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao with the Leaders of Sri Lanka.
CURE / HEAL / TREAT
Western medicine tends to the symptoms and not the cause.
At one time doctors couldn't people of TB.
I'm usually so active and independent but now I'll be house bound until my arm .
Her small son was of reflux, which he had since birth.
The plaster cast helps to the broken bone.
Within a week he was in intensive care, being for blood poisoning.
