Homonyms

Compose sentences to prove that each of these words has at least two quite different meanings.

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Introduction

Each of the words below has more than one possible meaning. Compose your own sentences to show what those different meanings are.

1. Bright. 2. Graft. 3. Stand. 4. Horn. 5. Country. 6. Suit.

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For each word above, choose one or more suitable meanings from this list.

1. A musical instrument, e.g. of brass. 2. Legal action. 3. Formal clothing. 4. Pay for e.g. drinks, food, on behalf of others. 5. Shining, sunny. 6. Hard work. 7. Intelligent. 8. Transplant. 9. Hard, sharp pointed growth of a bull, sheep, rhinocerous etc. 10. Intrude into a conversation. 11. A particular nation. 12. Hold oneself upright on one’s feet. 13. A stall in a market. 14. Match well, be appropriate to. 15. Fields and woods, not the city. 16. Bear, endure a hardship. 17. Corruption.

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Homonyms 1 Vocabulary 16 Exercises 39

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