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20 Hard but Useful Homographs you Should Add to your Vocabulary Immediately with Examples

Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 By The Lingwist
20 Hard but Useful Homographs you Should Add to your Vocabulary Immediately with Examples

Homographs are words with different pronunciations, meanings, and origins but the same spelling.  According to Your Dictionary “, homographs have the same spelling and different meanings, but unlike homophones, homographs may also have different pronunciations; For example, when you pronounce the word advocate with a short /a/ sound, it’s a noun that means “a person who speaks…

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