1) Which pairs of words are homophones? a) bead, head b) cell, sell c) bow, arrow d) knight, night 2) A synonym is a word that means the same or nearly the same as another word. a) True b) False 3) Which two of these sentences contain homographs? a) We can fit the whole shed into the hole in our back garden. b) Anjali spent an hour at our house. c) Pavel practised hard to perfect drawing perfect circles. d) I shed many tears when I saw the tears in my new jacket. 4) Choose the correct homophone: This is my favourite ________ of jeans. a) pare b) pair c) pear 5) Homophones are: a) Words that sound the same but mean different things b) Words that are combined with an apostrophe c) Words that sound the same and mean the same thing 6) Homonyms are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings. a) True b) False 7) Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of another word. a) True b) False 8) Which word is a synonym for the highlighted word? I entered the wrong password for my email. a) long b) incorrect c) correct d) funny 9) What is a homograph? a) a painting with the same image but by different artists b) words with the same meaning but different spellings c) a graph with the same figures from month to month d) words with the same spelling but different meanings 10) What type of words are bold in these sentences? You are not allowed to talk aloud in the library. The hotel maid made the bed. I turned pale when I dropped the water pail. a) Homonyms b) Homographs c) Homophones d) Jokes 11) Which word is an antonym for the word in bold? The movie was very boring. a) dull b) exciting c) hilarious d) scary 12) Connect this homograph with its two meanings: close a) smoothing out (verb)/time after sunset (noun) b) exhibit (verb)/gift (noun) c) shut (verb)/near (adjective) d) type of fish (noun)/musical instrument (noun) 13) Connect this homograph with its two meanings: bass a) smoothing out (verb)/time after sunset (noun) b) exhibit (verb)/gift (noun) c) shut (verb)/near (adjective) d) type of fish (noun)/musical instrument (noun) 14) Connect this homograph with its two meanings: evening a) smoothing out (verb)/time after sunset b) exhibit (verb)/gift (noun) c) shut (verb)/near (adjective) d) type of fish (noun)/musical instrument (noun) 15) Connect this homograph with its two meanings: present a) smoothing out (verb)/time after sunset b) exhibit (verb)/gift (noun) c) shut (verb)/near (adjective) d) type of fish (noun)/musical instrument (noun)

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