We’re moving next
to the homophone: a word pronounced the same as another but differing in
meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air. So … contronyms are words that have contradictory meanings (sanctiion = approve and
disapprove; homophones sound alike
but to not mean the same—and often are not spelled the same, either.
bear (noun): you know, like Smokey? And Yogi? (verb): to accept or endure (something)
bare (adj.): not having a covering; not
covered by clothing, shoes, a hat, etc.
The grizzly bear could hardly bear
To see the bare guy standing there.
But he’d be
happy (this his hunch)
When he ate
Bare Guy for his lunch.
It was, of
lunches, just the best—
There were
no blue jeans to digest.
He went to
Starbucks, got a frappe,
And then lay
down and took a nap.
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