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Can you name three homophones for "palate" and "censor"?

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Problem

Can you name three homophones for "palate" and "censor"?  And even a fourth?
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palate - the roof of the mouth; taste
pallet - a bed of straw; a platform for storing something
palette - an artist's board for paint

censor - a person that edits out offensive material
sensor - a device that senses something
senser - a person that senses

And the fourth homophones are:

pallette - plate at the armpit in a suit of armor
censer - a container for incense

Other quartets for other initial phoneme are:

ante - poker stake; before
anti - one that opposes
auntie - aunt
auntae - piers produced by thickening wall at its termination

baaed - bleeted, as shep
baud - signal frequency
bod - body
bawd - whore house owner

carat - unit of weight for precious stones
carrot - orange vegetable
karat - measure of gold purity
caret - a mark indicating insertion; accent ^

does - famale deer, rabbits, and other mammals
doughs - precursors to bread
doze - sleep lightly
dos - first tones of the diatonic scale

medal - an honorary decoration made of metal
meddle - to interfere, pry
metal - a shiny, conductive element or alloy
mettle - courage, spirit

new - recent, fresh, modern
knew - understood
nu - 13th Greek letter
gnu - African antelope

oh - interjection of surprise or other emotions
owe - to be indebted
eau - watery perfume
oe - Faroe whirlwind

raiser - one that raises of lifts
razer - one that razes or demolishes
razor - sharp cutting implement
raser - one that erases; engraver or carver

you - the second person pronoun
yew - a shrub or tree
ewe - a female sheep
yu - precious jade