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. grisly (adj.): causing horror or fear;
very shocking
2. grizzly (adj.): a form of grizzled (having grey hair)
It was a grisly sight she saw—
Remains of
her dear bro-in-law.
He’d run into
a grizzly bear—
He hadn’t
known the bear was there.
The awful
bloody grisly sight
Affected
her—her hair turned white.
And so she
was a grizzly soul,
Who never
was again quite whole.
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