Unit #20 Homophones
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
a
r
To perceive via the auditory sense
2.
e
r
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
3.
e
e
The present location
6.
c
e
The place where some action occurs
7.
b
d
To make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
8.
a
d
A committee having supervisory powers
9.
r
e
A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
10.
u
r
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
11.
e
a
Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
12.
t
h
A location other than here
13.
t
i
The posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond
14.
a
i
Any very large body of water
16.
a
e
A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
17.
m
n
Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
20.
e
r
United States rock singer