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.
1. coarse (adj.): having a rough quality;
rude or offensive
2. corse (noun): corpse
3. course (noun): the path or direction that someone moves
along; a series of classes about a particular subject (Verb): to move or flow quickly
His habits
were a little coarse,
So he signed
up to take a course
That would
improve the wicked course
Of life. For
soon he’d be a corse
If evil were
allowed to course
Unchecked.
And so he bought a horse,
Which
promptly threw him in the gorse,
Where he
regretted his divorce
And, now
dying, sought the source
Of
discontent. But no (of course)
He failed—but
left a message (Morse),
Then died,
suffused with much remorse,
Regretting
he’d not felt The Force.
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