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Homonyms Quiz #6

We give you a pair of definitions. You guess the homonym.
Homonyms are words that have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings.
Includes both true and polysemous homonyms
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Last updated: August 27, 2015
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First submittedJune 7, 2013
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Meaning #1
Meaning #2
Answer
Platypus body part
Draft of a law
Bill
Divisible by two
Flat and level
Even
Musical tone
Short letter
Note
Soft feathers
Descending direction
Down
Place to sit
Head of a committee
Chair
Soda
Dad
Pop
Wise
Certain culinary herb
Sage
Washbasin
To become submerged
Sink
Get smaller
Slang for psychiatrist
Shrink
Person who talks
with spirits
Between rare and
well done
Medium
Meaning #1
Meaning #2
Answer
Small cafeteria, esp.
in the military
Water bottle
Canteen
Young woman
Fail to hit a target
Miss
Longer work of fiction
Original
Novel
Campus courtyard
Muscle of the leg
Quad
Stick used as a whip
To exchange
Switch
Religious building
Part of the head
Temple
Revolve
To make yarn
Spin
Chemical curl
Everlasting
Permanent
To draw away liquid
Part of a candle
Wick
To remind incessantly
Old, useless horse
Nag
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Level 49
Sep 8, 2014
Got stuck on thinking 'dome' for religious building and part of the head...d'oh!
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Level 59
Jan 2, 2018
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Level 77
Oct 27, 2014
Cantina... cantine? How the heck do you spell that?!
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Level 60
Nov 8, 2014
I'm not sure about 'permanent'. It's a perm which I think is actually short for 'permanent wave' - you wouldn't ask a hairdresser for a permanent surely!
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Level 51
Dec 20, 2014
Yes, in fact, you would. "I'd like a permanent, please" is pretty much what you'd say.
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Level 84
May 26, 2017
I would never ask a hairdresser for a permanent. I look ridiculous enough as it is.
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Level 66
Jul 31, 2019
Does it look like a lampshade?
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Level 89
Nov 12, 2019
For that matter, it's temporary. Lasts longer than bed curlers and irons though.
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Level 68
Sep 10, 2021
I was sure it had something to do with bond.
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Level 70
Nov 8, 2014
100% with 42 seconds to spare.
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Level 68
Sep 11, 2021
Only 9 seconds to spare here. I almost didn't get sink
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Level 62
May 31, 2017
Great quiz, but it seems like a crazy amount of time allowed, no? I finished easily (and I'm a slow typer) in less than a minute and a half.
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Level 66
Jul 31, 2019
not sure if it fits 100% but I thought of flog, for a whip and exchange, it means to sell, and technically you exchange stuff, goods for money..
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Level 37
Aug 17, 2019
Growing up, the Canteen was the food/drygoods store where government officers did their grocery shopping each month.
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Level 68
Sep 11, 2021
I thought that was the commissary?
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Level 89
Nov 12, 2019
Nag as a verb comes from the term of describing a woman, usually the wife, as an old nag.
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Level 75
Aug 16, 2021
It's polysemous. Less satisfying but probably necessary for the number of quizzes in the series.
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Level 66
Sep 10, 2021
There must be a better definition of quad. A four wheeled motorcycle perhaps, or one of four in a multiple birth. The only word I know for a campus courtyard is agora.
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Level 76
Sep 10, 2021
This may be a regional/cultural difference. "Quad" is a common standard term for a campus courtyard in US colleges, or at least all the ones I've ever known, while I've never heard anything outside of ancient Greece called an agora.
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Level 66
May 10, 2023
It's usually called a courtyard in the UK, though quad is a common term too.
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Level 51
Feb 4, 2024
quad is short for quadrangle and i frequently came across it in lots of English books as a kid and later.
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Level 73
Sep 10, 2021
Why is television a medium? Because it's neither rare nor very well done!
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Level 78
Oct 5, 2021
Because it is one of 'the media'. In the singular.
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Level 68
Dec 21, 2023
An alternate definition for "miss" on the quiz could have been: "something you do to a joke".
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Level 76
Sep 10, 2021
Eventually got 'Note' but I was hung up on trying to spell "Ti" of doh-rae-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do
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Level 60
Sep 11, 2021
What's wrong with 'rag' for "To remind incessantly/Old, useless horse"?
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Level 57
Nov 15, 2021
Need to brush up on my American English for the homonym quizzes. My Australian English ain't cutting it.