Patience / patient’s / patients

1. A number of ____________ have been successfully treated with the new drug.

2. Their youngest son was beginning to try my ____________.

3. Just like any doctor, we take a ____________ medical details and allergies before a consultation.

4. He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much ____________ with the slower pupils.

5. The hospital was extremely busy, so the ____________ had to have ____________.

6. There has been no significant change in the ____________ condition.

RING / WRING

1. Students should ___________ the correct answers in pencil.

2. Car dealers are ___________ their hands over low sales this summer.

3. She’s ___________ out the shirt and hung it out to dry.

4. There's been an accident - can you ___________ for an ambulance?

5. My ears are still ___________ from the sound of the military band.

6. I'll ___________ his neck if he does that again!

SERVE / SERVICE

1. ___________ the pie warm with ice cream or whipped cream.

2. I've worked in public health ___________ throughout my career.

3. Everyone fell silent though when the prince raised his racket and ball to ___________.

4. You should leave a generous tip to reward good ___________.

5. A sheet of red outdoor fabric ___________ as the roof.

6. He had his motorcycle ___________ by the respondent.

TURBID / TURBULENT / TURGID

1. The style was ____________, the characters were poorly outlined and too ‘original’.

2. The ____________ water should be cleared before chlorination.

3. In rougher, more ____________ water, trout are much harder to see.

4. He told me to investigate the composition of this ____________ liquid.

5. The town had remained calm since the ____________ times seven months ago.

6. Some entries are rather ____________, and others wonderfully pretentious.

VAIN / VANE / VEIN

1. He was so _______, he would change his clothes three times a day.

2. They staunched the flow of blood from his _______.

3. The _______ on one side of the feather's spine was wider than the one on the other.

4. He sighed, and traced a _______ in the table wood before answering, and it was obvious this came hard for him.

5. Any wind capable of turning the _______ which keeps the mouth of the tube facing the wind is capable of registration

6. All the police's efforts to find him were in _______.

WADE / WEIGHED

1. We had to __________ through pages of legal jargon before we could sign the contract.

2. Your luggage must be __________ before it is put on the aircraft.

3. Easy access to a skilled workforce __________ heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.

4. It took him three hours to __________ through waist-high water too deep to take his two children with him.

5. Only when we have __________ all the factors involved can we decide when would be the best time to start.

 

 

Key

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	vain	vein	vane	vein	vane	vain
	wade	weighed	weighed	wade	weighed