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Q: Can you name three homophones for "palate" and "censor"?  And even a fourth?

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 palate - the roof of the mouth; taste
 pallet - a bed of straw; a platform for storing something
 palette - an artist's board for paint

 censor - a person that edits out offensive material
 sensor - a device that senses something
 senser - a person that senses
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And the fourth homophones are:

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 pallette - plate at the armpit in a suit of armor
 censer - a container for incense
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Other quartets for other initial phoneme are:

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 ante - poker stake; before
 anti - one that opposes
 auntie - aunt
 auntae - piers produced by thickening wall at its termination

 baaed - bleeted, as sheep
 baud - signal frequency
 bod - body
 bawd - whore house owner

 carat - unit of weight for precious stones
 carrot - orange vegetable
 karat - measure of gold purity
 caret - a mark indicating insertion; accent ^

 does - famale deer, rabbits, and other mammals
 doughs - precursors to bread
 doze - sleep lightly
 dos - first tones of the diatonic scale

 medal - an honorary decoration made of metal
 meddle - to interfere, pry
 metal - a shiny, conductive element or alloy
 mettle - courage, spirit

 new - recent, fresh, modern
 knew - understood
 nu - 13th Greek letter
 gnu - African antelope

 oh - interjection of surprise or other emotions
 owe - to be indebted
 eau - watery perfume
 oe - Faroe whirlwind

 raiser - one that raises of lifts
 razer - one that razes or demolishes
 razor - sharp cutting implement
 raser - one that erases; engraver or carver

 you - the second person pronoun
 yew - a shrub or tree
 ewe - a female sheep
 yu - precious jade
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