2. He aimed at the animal a blow calculated to kill it.
3. I fully intend to go, but cannot calculate how soon.
Let, leave.
1. Let me be! Don’t bother me when I want to study.
2. Let me alone!
3. Leave me alone here.
4. Let go! Unhand me.
Let once meant “to hinder.” Now it means the opposite—“permit.”
Lie, lay.
The chief trouble with the first of these two words seems to concern the past tense: “He laid down on the sofa.”