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Examples of Homonyms for Unacademy

Homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings, such as 'bark' meaning both the sound a dog makes and the outer layer of a tree. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like 'brake' and 'break.' Understanding both homonyms and homophones is essential for mastering English vocabulary and spelling.

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Examples of Homonyms for Unacademy

Homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings, such as 'bark' meaning both the sound a dog makes and the outer layer of a tree. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like 'brake' and 'break.' Understanding both homonyms and homophones is essential for mastering English vocabulary and spelling.

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Homonyms

Homonyms are two words that are spelled the same and sound the same but
have different meanings.

Examples
• Address - to speak to / location
• Air - oxygen / a lilting tune
• Arm - body part / division of a company
• Band - a musical group / a ring
• Bark - a tree's out layer / the sound a dog makes
• Bat - an implement used to hit a ball / a nocturnal flying mammal
• Bright - very smart or intelligent / filled with light
• Circular - taking the form of a circle / a store advertisement
• Current - up to date / flow of water
• Die - to cease living / a cube marked with numbers one through six
• Express - something done fast / to show your thoughts by using words
• Fair - equitable / beautiful
• Jag - a sharp, jutted object / a crying spree
• Kind - type / caring
• Lie - to recline / to tell a falsehood
• Match - to pair like items / a stick for making a flame
• Mean - average / not nice
• Pole - a person from Poland / a piece of metal that holds a flag
• Pound - unit of weight / to beat
• Quarry - a site for mining stone / to extract or obtain slowly
• Ream - a pile of paper / to juice a citrus fruit
• Ring - a band on a finger / something circular in shape
• Right - correct / direction opposite of left
• Rock - a genre of music / a stone
• Rose - to have gotten up / a flower
• Spring - a season / coiled metal
• Stalk - a part of a plant / to follow or harass someone
• Tender - gentle / offer of money
• Tire - to grow fatigued / a part of a wheel
• Well - in good health / a source for water in the ground
Homophone
Homophones are pairs of words that sound the same, but have distinctly
different meanings and different spellings. Understanding homophones is an
essential part of mastering the English language, both for vocabulary building
and spelling.
Some common examples of homophones, including the words used in a
sentence, are:
• brake/break: When teaching my daughter how to drive, I told her if she
didn't hit the brake in time she would break the car's side mirror.
• cell/sell: If you sell drugs, you will get arrested and end up in a prison cell.
• cent/scent: I won't spend one cent on a bottle of perfume until I know that I
love the scent.
• die/dye: If you accidentally drank a bottle of fabric dye, you might die.
• flour/flower: To bake a flower-shaped cake, you'll need some flour.
• for/four: I purchased four new pairs of shoes for my upcoming vacation.
• heal/heel: If the heel breaks on your shoe, you might fall. However, your
injuries will heal over time.
• hear/here: I wanted to sit here so I could hear the singer performing
without any distractions.
• hour/our: We have one hour before our appointment with the real estate
agent.
• idle/idol: Being idle makes me unhappy, but listening to my idol Taylor
Swift makes me happy.
• knight/night: The knight is on his way to the castle, but traveling at night is
very dangerous.
• knot/not: I do not know how she learned to tie the knot to make that
necklace.
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Q: Use of Homophones : Bald ( Dpty. Collector. 2011)


a) Bawled
b) Bold
c) Balled
d) Behold

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