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speculator ~ spectator

[different pronunciation]

“Speculator” (noun) is ‘a person who buys goods or share in a company and sells them when the prices go up and buys and sells land and property in order to make profits’,

e.g.

My uncle is a property speculator; he knows when to buy property cheaply and when to sell it at high price.

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“Spectator” (noun) is ‘a person who watches a game or other sports event’,

e.g.

Spectators in the stadium cheered and clapped whenever our team scored a goal.

The Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, China can hold ninety-one thousand spectators!

More than twenty thousand spectators turned out for the cricket match between India and England.

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