Close Menu

Search Think and Speak

Clay Lane Clay Lane Home The Copy Book Think and Speak Comfortable Words About Clay Lane Cookies
Think and Speak Think and Speak Home Worksheets Exercises Word Games Search Think and Speak
Word Games Add Vowels Crosswords Doublets High Tiles Honeycomb Game Polywords
Exercises

Homonyms

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

By Clay Lane

Back to text

Homonyms

© Martin Cathrae, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Source

Grouse in Nova Scotia, Canada.

X

No further information.

Back to text

Grouse in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Enlarge
© Martin Cathrae, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exercises (34) Homonyms (1) Vocabulary (15)

Introduction

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

The words in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 206 common words.

1. Rich. 2. Circular. 3. Even. 4. Notice. 5. Trace. 6. Point. 7. Let. 8. Husky. 9. Fray.

Show Suggestions

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

1. Of the voice, rough and breathy. 2. Indicate a direction. 3. A declaration that employment will be terminated. 4. Copy a drawing by overwriting it. 5. Possessing or bringing plenty of money. 6. Chafe the edge of cloth. 7. Make available to rent. 8. A unit of score in e.g. tennis. 9. Umpire’s call in tennis. 10. The primary issue. 11. Track down. 12. An amount too small to measure. 13. Not odd. 14. A place of intense fighting. 15. Mass-marketing newsletter. 16. A sled dog. 17. Round in shape. 18. Flat and smooth. 19. A particular spot. 20. Sharp. 21. Of food, indulgently high in fats, spices or sugars. 22. In the extreme case. 23. Allow. 24. Espy. 25. A poster, sign.

To get another set of words, simply refresh this page.

Archive

Find this and neighbouring posts in The Archive

If you like what I’m doing here on Clay Lane, from time to time you could buy me a coffee.

Buy Me a Coffee is a crowdfunding website, used by over a million people. It is designed to help content creators like me make a living from their work. ‘Buy Me a Coffee’ prides itself on its security, and there is no need to register.

Clay Lane

The Copy Book

Think and Speak

Comfortable Words

Think and Speak

Exercises

Word Games

All Subjects

Clay Lane About Clay Lane Email Support nicholas@claylane.uk

Blog Latest

There’s Nae Good Luck in Durham Gaol On his visits to Durham Gaol, prison reformer John Howard found conditions that were all too familiar.

Posted Today • The Copy Book

Music Video Alexander Borodin: Petite Suite: VI. Rêverie

Posted Yesterday

Composition Make up sentences using these phrases, making sure you put plenty of action in.

Posted Yesterday • Think and Speak

Rhymes Suggest words that rhyme with ‘love’.

Posted January 13 • Think and Speak

The Abuse of Literacy Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.

Posted January 13 • The Copy Book

Among Old Friends ‘Alpha of the Plough’ hoped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not treat his old friends as he treated his favourite books.

Posted January 12 • The Copy Book

Music Video Orlando Gibbons: Thus Angels Sung

Posted January 12 • Comfortable Words

A Reckless Indifference to Life In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.

Posted January 11 • The Copy Book

Music Video Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 28 (Irish): II. Allegro molto vivace

Posted January 10

Vocabulary Express each of these phrases in a single word.

Posted January 10

Dear Anne Elliot Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.

Posted January 4 • The Copy Book

The Three Bears The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.

Posted January 2 • The Copy Book

A Man Without a Price A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.

Posted January 1 • The Copy Book

Music Video Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Alway (‘the Bell Anthem’)

Posted January 1

Homonyms Show that each of these words might mean different things to different people.

Posted January 1 • Think and Speak

Hair by Hair Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.

Posted December 31 2024 • The Copy Book

Music Video William Byrd: The Bells

Posted December 31 2024

Hearken to the Solemn Voice A hymn looking to the coming of Christ in judgement, sung at the Wesleys’ New Year’s Eve watch-nights.

Posted December 30 2024 • Comfortable Words

One Last Look Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.

Posted December 30 2024 • The Copy Book

Rephrasing Cast Mr Perks’s words into good plain English.

Posted December 29 2024 • Think and Speak