pent vs strait

pent

• Confinement; concealment. 

• A pentatonic scale. 

• A pentacle or pentagram. 

• Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned. 

strait

• A difficult position. 

• A narrow pass, passage or street. 

• A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water. 

• A neck of land; an isthmus.