Vocabulary Builder

Directions: For each of the following sentences, choose the correct word in the brackets and fill in each blank.

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆𝗺𝘀 are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings. The word homonym comes from the prefix homo- which means "the same," and the suffix -nym, which means "name." Therefore, a homonym is a word that has at least two different meanings, even though all uses look and sound exactly alike.

The word homonym can be used as a synonym for both homophone and homograph. It can also be used to refer to words that are both homophones and homographs.

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 are words that sound the same but have different meanings, whether they’re spelled the same or not. There, their, and they’re are homophones. But so are bark (the sound a dog makes) and bark (the covering of a tree).

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘀 are words that have the same spelling but different meanings, whether they’re pronounced the same or not. Bass (the fish, rhymes with class) and bass (the instrument, rhymes with ace) are homographs. But so are bark (the sound a dog makes) and bark (the covering of a tree).