Waste vs Waist: What’s the Difference?

Tom Wilkinson

Host and founder of Thinking in English, Tom is committed to providing quality and interesting content to all English learners. Previously a research student at a top Japanese university and with a background in English teaching, political research, and Asian languages, Tom is now working fulltime on bettering Thinking in English!

Sometimes English vocabulary can be very confusing! Often words, phrases, and terms can have identical pronunciations or be written similarly, but have drastically different meaning.

So I made this post to make things a little clear!

Waste vs Waist?? Do you know the difference?

Do you know the difference between waste and waist?

Try using this vocabulary to make some sentences in the comments!

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