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The Greek homonymos, source of the word homonym, means what?Read the answer and worked solution →Desert meaning to abandon and desert meaning an arid region are examples of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Heteronyms are the subset of homographs that differ in what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which term names words that look identical on the lips in lipreading?Read the answer and worked solution →Which term describes words whose meaning changes with a capital letter, like polish and Polish?Read the answer and worked solution →Words like mouth, meaning a face opening or a cave opening, are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which word means a flatworm, an anchor end, a whale's tail fin and a stroke of luck?Read the answer and worked solution →Which informal fallacy arises from using an ambiguous word in two senses?Read the answer and worked solution →A river bank, a savings bank and a bank of switches show which relation?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the contraction they're stand for?Read the answer and worked solution →Bark of a dog and bark of a tree are both homographs and what else?Read the answer and worked solution →Homophones are words pronounced alike but differing in what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group of three words are all pronounced alike?Read the answer and worked solution →A unit pronounced the same as another is said to be what?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose radio play Under Milk Wood uses the pun on mourning and morning?Read the answer and worked solution →Malapropisms, which create comic effect, are usually what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which spelling of the past participle of bear now means 'carried'?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is the e kept in dyeing?Read the answer and worked solution →Profit and prophet, which sound alike, come ultimately from which languages?Read the answer and worked solution →In some non-rhotic accents such as Received Pronunciation, court and caught are what?Read the answer and worked solution →Homophones are often used in wordplay to create what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Greek homonymos, source of the word homonym, means what?

  1. Equal in sound
  2. Written the same
  3. Having one name
  4. Spoken together
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Correct answer: C. Having one name

Homonymos joins homos, same, and onoma, name, giving the sense having the same name.

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Desert meaning to abandon and desert meaning an arid region are examples of what?

  1. Capitonyms
  2. Homophenes
  3. Synonyms
  4. Heteronyms
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Correct answer: D. Heteronyms

The two deserts are spelled alike but pronounced differently, which makes them heteronyms.

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Heteronyms are the subset of homographs that differ in what?

  1. Pronunciation
  2. Spelling
  3. Capitalisation
  4. Word length
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Correct answer: A. Pronunciation

Heteronyms are homographs whose pronunciation, and meaning, differ from each other.

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