Test your vocabulary. Do you notice the differences among the following?

• Hall—(n) a corridor
  
• Haul—(v) to drag

• Rote—(n) 1. the use of memory, usually with little intelligence; 2. routine or repetition carried out mechanically or unthinkingly.
  
• Wrote—(v) did write (past tense of write)

Now test your friends and colleagues.