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air (AIR) (noun)
1. The atmosphere we breathe: Air is composed primarily of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor.
2. Biosphere, stratosphere, sky: The rocket blasted off into the air.
3. Wind, breeze, draft, current: When Andrea Gill opened the window, cold air blew in through the open window.
2. Biosphere, stratosphere, sky: The rocket blasted off into the air.
3. Wind, breeze, draft, current: When Andrea Gill opened the window, cold air blew in through the open window.
air (AIR) (verb)
To place something in an open area where there is a breeze to make it cool, dry, or clean: Leon's mother taught her children to put the blankets out on the line to air out.
ere (AIR) (preposition)
Prior to; before in time: Douglas and Karin will have a warm fire ere nightfall and so ere long they will be comfortable.
This is an old-fashioned or a literary term.
err (ER, UR, or AIR) (verb)
1. To make a mistake, slip up, miscalculate: Banks rarely err in figuring a checking account balance.
2. To deviate from an established moral code; to transgress, sin, misbehave: To err is human, to forgive divine.
2. To deviate from an established moral code; to transgress, sin, misbehave: To err is human, to forgive divine.
heir (AIR; not HAIR) (noun)
1. Someone who is legally entitled to inherit and to own an estate after the previous owner’s death; a beneficiary, an inheritor: The millionaire’s only heir was his son, Myron.
2. A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office: The king did not have an heir when he died.
2. A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office: The king did not have an heir when he died.
An heir is someone who may be worth more financially than others and still be worthless.
Angie, the heir to the science project started to err when she wrote that ere there was air, the earth was surrounded by carbon dioxide.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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heir (AIR; not HAIR)
1. One who is legally entitled to inherit and to own an estate after the previous owner’s death; beneficiary, inheritor, heir apparent: "The millionaire’s only heir was his son."
2. A person who inherits some title or office; a successor: "The CEO’s daughter became the new CEO in her father’s company.
3. A person who inherits or is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
4. A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office.
5. Anyone who receives or is expected to receive a heritage, as of ideas, from a predecessor.
2. A person who inherits some title or office; a successor: "The CEO’s daughter became the new CEO in her father’s company.
3. A person who inherits or is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
4. A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office.
5. Anyone who receives or is expected to receive a heritage, as of ideas, from a predecessor.
An heir is someone who may be worth more than others and still be worthless.
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hered-, herit-
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(Latin: heir; "he, or she, who obtains that which is left")
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“heir”
1. Someone who will inherit the property of another person if he or she lives longer than the one who is currently possessing the material goods or title: "The queen's oldest son is heir apparent to the throne."
2. A person who is very likely to have a job or position after the one who has it now leaves: "The owner of the company named his son as heir apparent of the business."
2. A person who is very likely to have a job or position after the one who has it now leaves: "The owner of the company named his son as heir apparent of the business."