Oxford Word Challenge
Homophones: Answers
1. One word means simple; the other means an aircraft:
plain/plane.
2. One word means expected; the other word means condensed vapour:
due/dew.
3. One word is nautical; the other is central to the body: naval/navel
4. One word means connections; the other is an animal:
links/lynx.
5. One word means an occasion; the other is a herb:
time/thyme.
6. One word means to hit; the other is a vegetable:
beat/beet.
7. One word means permitted; the other means audible:
allowed/aloud.
8. One word is a singer; the other is a sum of money.
tenor/tenner.
9. One word is an animal; the other is an undercover fighter:
gorilla/guerrilla.
10. One word means kind; the other means searched for:
sort/sought.
11. One means excluded; the other is a poet:
barred/bard.
12. One word is a day; the other is a sweet:
Sunday/sundae.
13. One word means pursued; the other means pure:
chased/chaste.
14. One word means a woolly South American animal; the other means a Buddhist monk in Tibet or Mongolia:
llama/lama.
15. These are the names of two particular people; one is a macho man; the other is a poet: Rambo/Rimbaud.
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