Homophones
Evoke or draw out a response & forbidden by law, rules or custom
Elicit
Illicit
Allied special forces attempt to destroy massive cannons blocking sea access which are built into Greek cliffs and heavily fortified by German forces
The Guns of Navarone- 1961
Going or advancing at the rate of something
Consistent and continuous speed while walking, running, swimming, etc
Excellent, first rate at something
Apace
Pace
Ace
In 1869 these 2 universities played the first college football game…with a soccer ball
Rutgers defeated Princeton 6-4
Negatively charged particle in an atom
Electron
Solid material typically hard, shiny with good conductivity/thermal characteristics & a person’s ability to cope well with difficulties or a demanding situation in a resilient way
Metal
Mettle
Spy action drama in the Alps starring Clint Eastwood & Richard Burton
Where Eagles Dare- 1968
Checkered or tartan twilled cloth
Put down especially gently
Help typically of a practical nature
Plaid
Laid
Aid
Led West Point, but also was a British general & 1st head of the American Legion
Benedict Arnold
Force that keeps planets in their orbits around the sun
Gravity
Say something nice about something or someone & add to/enhance something
Compliment
Complement
Fictional thriller about a German plot to assassinate Winston Churchill
The Eagle Has Landed- 1976
Say something to convey information
Top of a mountain
To leak slightly
Speak
Peak
Eak
In 1923 this President was the first to speak to the American people via radio
Woodrow Wilson
Process a plant uses to make food with sunlight
Photosynthesis
Stir up unlawful behavior & gain a deep intuitive understanding
Incite
Insight
Frank Sinatra leads a group prof POW escapees who attemt to hijack a trying to try and return to the safety of the Allies
Von Ryan’s Expres— 1965
A long speech or piece or writing, typically regarded as tedious
System of religious beliefs
Tall, slender plant of the grass family
Screed
Creed
Reed
Longest continuously occupied royal residence
Windsor Palace by William the Conqueror- 1110
Blood type known as the universal donor
O negative
Famous and respected within a particular sphere/profession & existing operating within/inherent
Eminent
Immanent
With the Allie’s poised to retake Paris from the Germans, who try and sneak out masterpieces. Burt Lancaster plays a railway inspector rerouting the train and re-naming train stops to foil the attempt to by the Nazis to loot the art
The Train -1964
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law or code of conduct
Stretch out an arm in a specified direction in order to touch/grasp something
Refer to every one of 2 or more people or things identified separately
Breach
Reach
Each
Daily Double
Spanish archipelago originally part of Portugal 60 miles off the coast of North Africa where Columbus first docked for repairs before sailing to the New World
Phase change from liquid to gas below boiling point
Evaporation