Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings and, therefore, spellings. Choose the correct word for each sentence.
He manipulated the formal elements of the picture to __________ the psychological quality of the experience.
complement
compliment
This is a weight-driven clock equipped with a __________ consisting of a drum divided into twelve compartments with small holes in the dividing walls.
brake
break
The mechanism of change has much the same function in the historical process as __________ have had in biological evolution.
genes
jeans
August Weismann argued that two independent processes of __________ division start from the fertilized egg.
sell
cell
Differences in the behaviour of different cancers of the same organ does not make it easy to identify the __________ hormones for treatment.
write
right
Almost certainly, the most ancient process, and one which continues to play a central __________ today, is genetic recombination,
role
roll
Even though it was mid-October, the weather was still __________.
summery
summary
In particular, on days of ill-omen ships could not set __________.
sail
sale
The fault element in rape is that the man__________ that the woman is not consenting.
knows
nose
Grande Carajas, a huge iron-__________ strip-mining and smelting project, can only be economically viable if energy for the pig-iron smelters is provided by charcoal made from the surrounding forest.
oar
or
ore
It in no way means that other outcomes are not possible, particularly if the system is perturbed by say, bad __________, or a strike.
whether
weather
The Finlay Report __________ Pan American's route structure and rapid wartime expansion under the guise of military service.
discussed
disgust
We may find unifying __________ in patterns of gene activity.
principals
principles
None the less, various biological __________ of X-rays were noted and explored.
effects
affects
The evolutionary __________ of early man remains a complexity of fossils and uncertain interpretations.
story
storey
Owen had more parish work than __________ and even less time for his own studies.
formerly
formally
Thomas Hobbes was born near Malmesbury in 1588, the __________ of the local vicar and his wife.
son
sun
Basic questions about how X-rays __________ living cells could hardly be answered.
affect
effect
So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to __________ any input as genuinely random.
accept
except
When the ancestors of __________ reinvaded the sea, they did not acquire fins by hybridizing with fish.
whales
wails
It _________ to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market.
seamed
seemed
It is possible to change your food preferences, to learn to enjoy exercise, and to achieve an appropriate body _________.
weight
wait
This procedure is __________ equivalent to the conditional choice procedure use with rats.
formally
formerly
The therapist must also determine __________ the patient feels able, with support, to tackle his present difficulties.
whether
weather
The __________ purpose of this book is to defend a concept of political freedom.
whole
hole
In _________, exercise is most efficient in the late afternoon.
summary
summery
The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of __________ labelling and the principle of maximum certainty.
fare
fair
The film was screened as a three-week __________.
cereal
serial
Unfortunately direct evidence for their involvement is very __________.
weak
week
This is _________ to the way their principles of political freedom feed into and shape their conception of justice.
due
dew
Buyers in bad faith were deprived of all remedy __________ for return of the price, and no damages could be sought.
except
accept
It is their claim to unlimited authority which is at __________ here.
stake
steak
They __________ that the judge could give a lenient sentence.
knew
new
They develop, __________ by __________ , lying either side of the future spinal cord.
pair
pear
Lewis Henry Morgan's two __________ books had a decisive effect on their later work.
principle
principal
__________ work focused on certain topics.
There
They're
Their
Two particular points may be __________ about offences of physical violation.
made
maid
An increased blood supply brings the extra oxygen needed for glucose breakdown and removes the __________ materials.
waste
waist
They were principally used on __________ ship to measure its speed.
board
bored
He manipulated the formal elements of the picture to __________ the psychological quality of the experience.