1. bill : a) a person's name
b) another word for a bird's beak
c) request for payment, gas bill, electric bill, doctor's bills etc.
2. play a) Children play at the park.
b) She got a part in the school play.
3. book a) Did you read that book?
b) I need to book a flight to California.
4. sheets a) sheets of paper
b) bed sheets
5. kid a) a child
b) to joke around
c) a young goat
6. bug a) an insect b) to bother c) to bug someone's office
7. show a) Show me how to throw a fast ball.
b) Did you watch that TV show?
8. plant a) That's a beautiful green plant on your porch.
b) Let's plant a garden next spring.
c) He worked in a manufacturing plant.
9. fly a) an insect
b) Birds fly south for the winter.
c) The toddler forgot to zip up the fly in his pants.
10. roll a) a dinnr roll, bread
b) to roll down a hill or to roll the dice
Similar sounding words but with different meaning - example: Desert and Dessert
The word "Innuendo" is commonly used... There's also the word "Insinuation" or "Allusion"
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It is called synonymy when different words have the same meaning.
Words with the same meaning are synonyms. Words with opposite meanings are antonyms. Homonyms are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Homophones are words that sound alike, but have different meanings. synonyms
The study of the meaning and interpretation of words is called semantics. Semantics focuses on how words convey meaning and how this meaning is understood and interpreted within different contexts and cultures.
Homographs
they are homophones
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You might mean homonyms. Homonyms are different words that sound the same but have different meaning. Examples are: two and too, bite and bight, ball and bawl.
Words such as "minute" that are spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations are called homographs.
A thesaurus is a book that contains words that are different but have the same meaning. It is a reference book that helps users find synonyms for words that they are looking to use in their writing.
Other words could be pleaded, implored, or entreated.
An idiom is an expression that has a meaning different from what it literally says. For example, one can say that something expensive costs an arm and a leg, although clearly the point made is different from what the individual words mean.
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