Writing Handbook Exercises
 
Homophones
For each sentence, type the correct word from the parentheses in the answer box. The content of each sentence will determine only one suitable choice.

example:

From the end of the Cold War to the present, the US has initiated far-reaching national policies which ( alter altar ) the international landscape.


11. Military engineers were called out to ( diffuse defuse ) a roadside bomb discovered at a check point outside of Kandahar.
diffuse
defuse