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CONFUSED?

• Sometimes vocabulary is very confusingIsnt it!

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Homonym

• One or more words that have the same sound and
  often the same spelling but differ in meaning

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Homonym

• Example Bank
• A place where you keep money
• A piece of land at the edge of a river

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Homonym

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Homophone

• One of two or more words that are pronounced the
  same but have different meanings and sometimes
  different spellings.

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Homophone

• Example
• Night the opposite of day
• Knight A member of royalty and soldier in
  medieval times.

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Homograph

• A word that has the same spelling as another but
  differ in meaning and sometimes pronunciation.

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Homograph

• Example Bow
• The front of a ship
• To bend forward
• A decorative knot
• A bow to shoot arrows with

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Homograph

• Heteronym A specific type of homograph in which
  different pronunciations are associated with
  different meanings.
• Many heteronyms are the result of one
  pronunciation being a verb and another being a
  noun.

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Homograph

• Example of Heteronymn
• Conduct (KONduckt) behavior
• Conduct (kunDUCKT) to lead as in an orchestra

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Homograph

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Idioms/Expressions

• An idiom or an expression is a phrase whose
  meaning cannot be made sense of from the literal
  definition, but refers instead to a figurative
  meaning that is known only through common use

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Idiom/Expression

• Example
• He cracked up when I told the joke
• Her heart was broken when her boyfriend broke up
  with her

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Idiom/Expression

• Example
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