KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO-4 ONGC VADODARA

English Vocabulary Enrichment

Homonym, Homophone, Homographs
Homonym: In English, homonym is a word that sounds the same as another word
but differs in meaning.

Homonyms can refer to both homophones and homographs.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs
in meaning and is spelled differently.

Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning.

Homonyms examples:

Words that sound the same but have different meaning and are spelled differently
(homophones)

 Weak — Week
 Sun — Son
 See — Sea
 Plane — Plain
 Meet — Meat

Words that sound the same but have different meaning and are spelled the same
(homographs)

 Address – Address
 Band – Band
 Bat – Bat
 Match – Match
 Mean – Mean
 Right – Right
 Ring – Ring

Examples: with pictures and sentences

Students go through all the Homophones & Homographs Picture Charts and try
to understand the difference between their meanings by reading the usage in
sentences. Learn them by heart and make them a part of your active vocabulary .I
Hope that you will not get confused with their meanings in future.
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