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Test Your Vocabulary Skills! Fun With Homonyms

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Homonym: a word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning

Bald balled bawled homonyms

Answer:

Bawled

Usage: Bawling-baby

The baby bawled every night at bedtime.

bawl (bôl)

v. bawledbawl·ingbawls
v.intr.
  1. To cry or sob loudly; wail.
  2. To cry out loudly and vehemently; shout.
v.tr. To utter in a loud, vehement voice. See Synonyms at shout.
n. A loud, bellowing cry; a wail.

 

Usage:Bald-man

The smiling man is bald.

bald (bôld)

adj. bald·erbald·est

    1. Lacking hair on the head.
    2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn.
    3. Lacking treads: a bald tire.
    4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals.
    5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned.
    6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy.

 

Usage: 

The hedge hog is all balled up!

ball (bôl)Balled up hedge hog

      1. A spherical object or entity: a steel ball.
      2. A spherical or almost spherical body: a ball of flame.
v. balledball·ingballs

v.tr.

  1. To form into a ball.

v.intr.

  1. To become formed into a ball.

 

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Source for definitions: TheFreeDictionary.com

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