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10 most confusing Homophones

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As in my last post, I have described the top 10 common phobias. Most of my readers liked those phobias. In today's post, I am going to describe Homophones . Homophone often causes trouble and creates a lot of confusion for learners of English. So let's start by taking a closer look at the meaning of word homophone . What is homophone?  Those words which share the same pronunciation but have different meaning are called homophones. This word derives form the Greek, where ' homo '- means same and the root ' phone '- means sound . So the words "flower" and "flour" are a homophone, as are "two" and "to". There are thousands of homophones but I'm going to describe 10 most common homophones which mostly left us puzzled!! 1. cell/sell Cell(noun): - jail  जेल The prisoner was locked up in a cell . Sell(verb) :- to offer something for people to buy बेचना He sells vegetables for a living. 2. Die/d...