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Add suitable prefixes (un il dis in im) to the words given below.
1. legal – ________________ 6. adequate – ________________
2. employed – ________________ 7. proper – ________________

3. agree – ________________ 8. believable – ________________
4. complete – ________________ 9. mature – ________________

5. legible – ________________ 10. obey – ________________

B. Homophones

A word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different spelling and meaning
is called a homophone.
Look at the words below. They are homophones.

heal – heel pair – pear deer – dear palate – palette

flower – flour hangar – hanger fair – fare die – dye

altar – alter cereal – serial soar – sore feat – feet

Look up the meanings of the above words in a dictionary. Then fill in the blanks with the
right word.
1. I have a bowl of _____________ with milk for breakfast. (cereal / serial)

2. The devotees kneeled at the _____________ and prayed. (alter / altar)

3. A large building in which aircraft are kept is called a _____________. (hangar / hanger)

4. What is the train _____________ from Hyderabad to Delhi? (fair / fare)

5. He bought a _____________ of spectacles. (pair / pear)

6. A thin, oval board used by a painter to mix colours is called a _____________. (palate / palette)

7. The wound will _____________ in a few days. (heal / heel)

8. _____________ is used to bake cakes. (flower / flour)

9. A _____________ eats grass. (deer / dear)

10. He has a _____________ throat. (sore / soar)

C. Compound Words

Compound words are formed when two or more words are combined to make one word.
Look at the compound words below.

newspaper homesick keyboard
backbone ice-cream briefcase
showroom blackbird sunflower

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