Confusing words – part 44
PRECEDENCE / PRECEDENTS
There are several for promoting people who don't have formal qualifications.
must be given to the injured in the evacuation plans.
There are plenty of in Hollywood for letting people out of contracts.
The order of for titled nobility in Britain is duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron.
RAP / WRAP
I got a rapwrap on the knuckles for not finishing my essay on time.
Take your purchases to the sales clerk, and he will rapwrap them for you.
I don't rapwrap too well but I've always liked making mix tapes.
She could rapwrap her father around her little finger.
REST / WREST
He looked away from the computer screen to restwrest his eyes.
For the past year he has been trying to restwrest control from the central government.
We cannot allow the matter to restwrest here - further action has to be taken.
Their bodies twisted as each tried to restwrest the weapon from the other's grasp.
When told of Smith's angry response to her claim, she said simply, "I restwrest my case."
RUNG / WRUNG
She rungwrung her hands together as she struggled with how to announce the news.
I stepped out, swung around, grabbed the other side of the ladder and placed my foot on the proper rungwrung.
The seventies were rungwrung in with platforms, the Roaring twenties had the round-toed bar shoes.
Sofia rungwrung out the washcloth into the basin and hung it on its peg.’
SIDE / SIGHED
Elizabeth sidesighed wearily as she was woken from her sleep by Joshua crying in his crib.
She seems quite fierce, but actually she has a gentle sidesighed.
Both children, disengaging themselves from their game, came to her sidesighed.
A breeze sidesighed through the branches and we came to a glade, a secret place of fir and silver birch.
I've listened to your sidesighed of the story, but I still think you were wrong to do what you did.
The runner sidesighed as he felt a stitch in his sidesighed.
STEP / STEPPE
Most people believe that the decision to cut interest rates was a stepsteppe in the right direction.
These people have lived for centuries on the Russian stepssteppes.
She clung to the handrail as she walked down the slippery stepssteppes.
Across the country extend belts of tundra (in the far north), forest, stepsteppe, and fertile areas.
TEA / TEE
In a few hours' time most of the world's top golfers off in the U.S. Masters.
How about a nice cup of ? That'll make you feel better.
Believe me, the game is a lot easier when your shots consistently find the short grass.
The problem has to be stamped out - not given and sympathy.
The golfers had time to drink some sweet before it was their time.
TOAD / TOWED
The road was closed while the vehicles that had been involved in the accident were toadtowed off.
This snivelling little toadtowed said with utter contempt in his voice, ‘Oh sure the French have culture.
You're not allowed to park here - your car will be toadtowed away .
A toadtowed has a drier, lumpier skin than a frog and spends less time in the water.
VALE / VEIL
There stood the king, dark against a narrow window, looking out upon the .
After the ceremony, the bride lifted up her to kiss her husband.
What favour was it to other souls to bring them into this of tears?
The view over the lake was obscured by a of mist that hung in the air.
WET / WHET
She took out her dagger and began to wetwhet its blade in even, rhythmic strokes.
When assembling the pie, wetwhet the edges where the two crusts join.
It should be a platform for all film-makers to exchange their ideas and wetwhet their skills.
She rendered the walls in cement and, while it was still wetwhet, applied the shells.
Well, how about keeping me company while I wetwhet my whistle?
