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Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones: 

(i) brake/break 

(a) We have a short _______ between the sessions. 

(b) The car skidded to a halt when I applied the _______ 

(ii) waste/waist 

(a) Shivani wears a belt around her _______ 

(b) We should never misuse or _______ natural resources. 

(iii) principle/principal 

(a) Oxygen is the _______ element present in earth’s crust. 

(b) Both these machines work on the same _______ 

(iv) bread/bred 

(a) Turtles should be _______ in a healthy environment. 

(b) I like to have toasted _______ for breakfast.

(v) lesson/lessen 

(a) This medicine will _______ your pain.

(b) Finally, the manager learnt a _______ the hard way.

(vi) pale/pail

(a) The child looks very sick and _______ 

(b) I need a _______ of water to wash these cups.

(vii) through/threw 

(a) Ravi picked the banana peel and _______ it in the dustbin. , 

(b) The soldiers had to pass _______ a dark tunnel.

(viii) corps/corpse 

(a) The _______ was covered with a shroud. 

(b) A five-day annual training camp for the senior cadets of the National Cadet _______ been organised.

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(i) (a) break (b) brake 

(ii) (a) waist (b) waste

(iii) (a) principal (b) principle 

(iv) (a) bred (b) bread 

(v) (a) lessen (b) lesson 

(vi) (a) pale (b) pail 

(vii) (a) threw (b) through 

(viii) (a) corpse (b) corps

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