Which Witch is Which? Part IV: O-R

  • oar.............boat propulsion system
  • or...............comparitive article
  • ore.............mineral-laden dirt

  • odd.............see: awed

  • offal............see: aweful

  • oh...............interjection
  • owe.............to be indebted

  • ohs.............more than one letter "O"
  • owes............in debt

  • one.............singularity
  • won.............victorious

  • oohs...........as in "oohs and ahs"
  • ooze...........slime

  • oracle, see: auricle

  • oral, see: aural

  • ordinance......a decree
  • ordnance.......artillery

  • ought, see: aught

  • our, see: hour

  • ours, see: hours

  • overdo.........carried to excess
  • overdue........past time for payment

  • paced..........measured by footsteps
  • paste..........thick glue

  • packed.........placed in a container
  • pact...........agreement

  • pail...........bucket
  • pale...........light colored

  • pain...........it hurts
  • pane...........a single panel of glass

  • pair...........a set of two
  • pare...........cutting down
  • pear...........bottom-heavy fruit

  • palate.........taste
  • pallet.........a platform for transporting goods; bed
  • pallette.......a selection of paint

  • pall...........to become wearisome
  • Paul...........a man's name
  • pawl...........locks a ratchet

  • passed.........approved; moved on
  • past...........before now

  • patience.......being willing to wait
  • patients.......doctor's customer

  • pause..........to hesitate
  • paws...........cat transportation

  • pea............round, green legume
  • pee............urinate, slang

  • peace..........free of war or calamity
  • piece..........a part of

  • peak...........mountain top
  • peek...........secret look
  • pique...........ruffled pride

  • peal...........ringing sound
  • peel...........fruit outer covering, the act of removing a covering

  • pealed.........rang with sound as with a bell
  • peeled.........having removed the covering

  • pearl..........round, luminescent gem from an oyster
  • purl...........to edge with a chain of small loops as in knitting

  • pedal..........foot control
  • peddle.........to sell

  • peer...........an equal
  • pier...........wharf

  • pencil.........writing implement
  • pensil.........thin, swallowtail flag

  • per............for each
  • purr...........endearing cat hum

  • pharoah, see: farrow

  • phase, see: faze

  • phased, see: fazed

  • phew, see: few

  • phial, see: file

  • philter, see: filter

  • phlox, see: flocks

  • pi.............3.1416...
  • pie............filled crust pastry

  • picnic.........outdoor meal
  • pyknic.........physiological type with thick neck, large abdomen and short limbs

  • pieced.........assembled from pieces
  • piste..........a ski run of compacted snow

  • pincer.........claw-like gripping action
  • pincher........one who pinches
  • pinscher.......terrier

  • pistil.........seed-bearing organ of a flower
  • pistol.........hand gun

  • place..........a location
  • plaice.........a flounder

  • plain..........not fancy
  • plane..........a surface

  • plait..........braid
  • plate..........a dish

  • planar.........flat
  • planer.........one who planes

  • pleas..........crys for help
  • please.........good manners

  • pleural........related to lungs
  • plural.........more than one

  • plum...........purple fruit
  • plumb..........straight up and down

  • polar..........relating to the North or South poles
  • poler..........one who uses a pole

  • Pole...........a person from Poland
  • pole...........big stick
  • poll...........a voting

  • poled..........a pole was used
  • polled.........lacking horns

  • pone...........the dealer's opponent in two-handed card games
  • pony...........a small horse

  • poor...........no money
  • pore...........careful study; microscopic hole
  • pour...........to flow freely

  • popery.........a disparaging term for Catholics
  • potpourri......a miscellaneous collection

  • praise.........to commend
  • prays..........petition to God
  • preys..........hunts

  • pray...........worship God
  • prey...........hunt

  • precedence.....priority
  • precedents.....established course of action
  • presidents.....commanders-in-chief

  • presence.......the state of being present
  • presents.......gifts

  • pride..........ego
  • pryed..........opened with force

  • pries..........wedging open
  • prize..........the reward

  • prince.........son of the King
  • prints.........impressions

  • principal......head of school
  • principle......causative force

  • profit.........money earned
  • prophet........seer

  • pros...........multiple experts
  • prose..........ordinary language

  • psi............twenty-third letter of Greek alphabet
  • sigh...........sad and weary breath
  • xi.............fourteenth letter of Greek alphabet

  • quarts.........several fourths-of-gallons
  • quartz.........crystalline rock

  • quay, see: cay

  • queue, see: cue

  • quince.........small, round fruit
  • quints.........multiple quintuplets

  • quire, see: choir

  • quoin, see: coin

  • rabbet.........a groove cut in a board
  • rabbit.........small mammal

  • rack...........shelf
  • wrack..........wreckage

  • racket.........illegal moneymaking scheme
  • racquet........woven bat for tennis

  • rain...........precipitation
  • reign..........sovereign rule
  • rein...........horse's steering wheel

  • raise..........elevate
  • rays...........thin beams of light
  • raze...........to tear down completely
  • ("raise" is the antonym of "raze")

  • rap............a sharp knock
  • wrap...........to encase in cloth

  • rapped.........knocked sharply
  • rapt...........spellbound
  • wrapped........encased in cloth

  • ray............arrow of light
  • re.............musical note

  • read...........having knowledge from reading
  • red............a primary color

  • read...........to get the meaning by looking
  • rede...........advice
  • reed...........tall, thin water plant

  • reading........what you are doing now
  • reeding........a small semicylindrical moulding or ornamentation

  • reads..........gets the meaning by looking
  • reeds..........more than one aquatic plant

  • real...........authentic
  • reel...........armature for winding, a type of group dance

  • recede.........to move backward
  • reseed.........to plant again

  • reck...........to care
  • wreck..........a ruin

  • reek...........smells bad
  • wreak..........to inflict

  • resinate.......to impregnate with resin
  • resonate.......sympathetic vibration

  • resisters......protesters
  • resistors......electrical restrictors

  • rest...........stop working
  • wrest..........take away

  • retch..........call Ralph on the porcelain telephone
  • wretch.........a ragamuffin

  • review.........a general survey or assessment
  • revue..........a series of theatrical sketches or songs

  • rheum..........watery discharge of mucous
  • room...........partitioned space

  • rheumy.........having a watery discharge of mucous
  • roomie.........colloquialism for "roommate"
  • roomy..........lots of space

  • rho............seventeenth letter of Greek alphabet
  • roe............fish eggs
  • row............aisle; pull an oar

  • rhumb..........a constant compass direction
  • rum............liquor distilled from sugar cane

  • rhyme..........a verse with regular recurrence of sounds
  • rime...........frost

  • rigger.........one who rigs
  • rigor..........discipline

  • right..........correct
  • rite...........ritual
  • wright.........a maker
  • write..........to inscribe

  • ring...........circle
  • wring..........twisting

  • rise...........to stand up
  • ryes...........varieties of grain

  • road...........a broad trail
  • rode...........past tense of ride
  • rowed..........to propel a boat by oars

  • roam...........to wander
  • Rome...........capital of Italy

  • roil...........to make turbid
  • royal..........worthy of a king or queen

  • role...........part to play
  • roll...........rotate

  • rood...........a cross
  • rude...........coarse

  • roomer.........a tenant
  • rumor..........gossip

  • root...........subterranean part of a plant
  • route..........path of travel

  • rose...........a brush or shrublike flower, a pink color
  • rows...........linear arrangement

  • rot............decay
  • wrought........made

  • rote...........by memory
  • wrote..........past tense of write

  • rough..........coarse
  • ruff...........pleated collar

  • rout...........to force out
  • route..........path of travel

  • roux...........cooked butter and flour
  • rue............regret

  • rude...........impolite
  • rued...........regretted

  • rye............grain
  • wry............twisted

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