SOUND AND SENSE:
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. fair (noun): an exhibition usually with
accompanying entertainment and amusements (adj.) reasonable, just; average
[there are numerous other meanings, too]
2. fare (noun): the money a person pays to
travel; a passenger who pays a fare; a specified kind of food (verb): to get
along, succeed
He really
couldn’t stand the fair—
Especially
the fast-food fare.
Although he
paid the entry fare—
He’d done so
on a stupid dare.
And at the fair how would he fare?
(Did anybody
even care?)
Oh, life
just did not seem too fair—
Or so he thought
… then saw a bear,
And from its cage—just over there—
The bear
could look; the bear could stare.
The guy advanced—too
near his lair—
Got
grabbed—he really had no prayer.
Post-lunch,
I heard the bear declare:
“I have not
had so foul a fare.”
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