Word Games
Nov. 29th, 2004 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsTaken from a list I'm on - knowing my f-list, this is about to get longer:
The list below is a selection of the words that, whilst sharing a spelling, have unique pronunciations and unique meanings.
* Agape: During the agape, I noticed a man sitting with his mouth agape.
* Appropriate: It was appropriate for the teacher to appropriate the boy's knife.
* Bow: I stood on the bow of the ship with my bow and arrow.
* Bower: The bower lived in a bower near his farm.
* Buffet: The winds buffet the hotel, whilst inside the guests enjoy the buffet.
* Console: I tried to console the controller as he stood at his console.
* Content: John was content that the content of the box was undamaged.
* Drawer: The drawer drew a picture of the cupboard and drawer.
* Entrance: The lavishly decorated entrance will entrance the visitors.
* Incense: It will incense the bursar that we have spent so much on incense.
* Intimate: Ron tried to intimate that Liz had an intimate relationship with Ben.
* Moped: As my mother moped about, a man on a moped rode by.
* Number: I broke a number of bones in my right hand; it's number than the left.
* Proceeds: As the charity event proceeds, the proceeds keep pouring in.
* Recount: The President will recount the events that led to a vote recount.
* Refuse: The city dump was so full, they had to refuse to accept more refuse.
* Resent: I resent the fact that the letter was lost, but I have resent it.
* Sewer: As the sewer sat sewing, she smelled the stench of a local sewer.
* Sow: Every time I sow seeds the sow digs them up and eats them.
* Wound: The doctor wound a bandage around the painful wound.
The list below is a selection of the words that, whilst sharing a spelling, have unique pronunciations and unique meanings.
* Agape: During the agape, I noticed a man sitting with his mouth agape.
* Appropriate: It was appropriate for the teacher to appropriate the boy's knife.
* Bow: I stood on the bow of the ship with my bow and arrow.
* Bower: The bower lived in a bower near his farm.
* Buffet: The winds buffet the hotel, whilst inside the guests enjoy the buffet.
* Console: I tried to console the controller as he stood at his console.
* Content: John was content that the content of the box was undamaged.
* Drawer: The drawer drew a picture of the cupboard and drawer.
* Entrance: The lavishly decorated entrance will entrance the visitors.
* Incense: It will incense the bursar that we have spent so much on incense.
* Intimate: Ron tried to intimate that Liz had an intimate relationship with Ben.
* Moped: As my mother moped about, a man on a moped rode by.
* Number: I broke a number of bones in my right hand; it's number than the left.
* Proceeds: As the charity event proceeds, the proceeds keep pouring in.
* Recount: The President will recount the events that led to a vote recount.
* Refuse: The city dump was so full, they had to refuse to accept more refuse.
* Resent: I resent the fact that the letter was lost, but I have resent it.
* Sewer: As the sewer sat sewing, she smelled the stench of a local sewer.
* Sow: Every time I sow seeds the sow digs them up and eats them.
* Wound: The doctor wound a bandage around the painful wound.
