Enunciate carefully:
| salary | gentleman | supple | gymnasium |
| because | library | subtle | perspiration |
| ideal | wrestle | italic | clapboards |
| suite | vessel | insect | cupboard |
| thirty | friendship | orchid | archangel |
| tomato | judgment | hovel | candelabra |
| grimy | cowardice | several | extraordinary |
| patron | miserable | pumpkin | civilization |
| omelet | guarantee | accurate | horseshoe |
| hundred | gelatine | guardian | laboratory |
| coupon | glycerine | delinquent | tenacious |
| awkward | paraffine | secretary | measure |
| hurrah | portrait | audacious | February |
| pigeon | mercantile | conquer | cellar |
| history | juvenile | conquest | perfect |
| diamond | thousand | congress | grandmother |
| asylum | overalls | licorice | generally |
Exercise 22
Be especially careful of the sounds th and wh. Add no syllable to a word and omit none. Consult a dictionary for any word below about which you are not certain:
Exercise 23—Homonyms
A homonym is a word having the same sound as another but differing from it in meaning. Use each of the following in a sentence to show its meaning.
| aloud | draft | fowl | principal |
| allowed | draught | foul | principle |
| ascent | faint | gate | peal |
| assent | feint | gait | peel |
| aught | canvas | great | quire |
| ought | canvass | grate | choir |
| bad | cereal | hew | seen |
| bade | serial | hue | scene |
| bale | cession | kernel | soul |
| bail | session | colonel | sole |
| berry | cite | leased | strait |
| bury | site | least | straight |
| boy | coarse | lesser | stair |
| buoy | course | lessor | stare |
| by | compliment | mite | sweet |
| buy | complement | might | suite |
| council | feign | miner | there |
| counsel | fain | minor | their |
| current | flour | need | wood |
| currant | flower | knead | would |
Exercise 24
Do the same with the following: