ballet — ballot
[different end pronunciation]
ballet dancers doing ballet
“Ballet” (the letter ‘t’ is silent — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
means ‘a kind of dance performance with graceful body movements but without song or speech’,
e.g.
A female ballet dancer is called a ballerina.
Most dancers take basic classes in ballet before taking up the dance of their choice.
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a balloter voting by dropping the ballot paper into the ballot box
“Ballot”, for the right pronunciation, please click here,
means ‘the system of electing some representative by secret voting; and a piece of paper the voter used in a secret voting’,
e.g.
The voters (balloters) mark their ballots and put them in the ballot-boxes.
