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Homophone Fun: A Play on Words Answer Key

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Animals/Insects
#1 What is a large furry mammal with a short tail? bear
#2 What is an animal with four long legs, a long neck and hooves? deer
#3 What is a large mammal with long legs, hooves, a long neck with a mane, short hair, and a long tail? horse
#4 What is an insect with a hairy body, four wings, a stinger and yellow and black in color called? bee
#5 What is an insect that lives in large, organized groups called colonies in the ground called? ant
Verbs
#1 What is another word that means to shut? close
#2 What is the word that is the PAST TENSE of blow? blew
#3 What word means to cry really hard? bawl
#4 What is the word that is the PAST TENSE of eat? ate
#5 What is the word that means to form on a surface using a pen, pencil, typewriter, or other instrument? write
Adjectives
#1 What is the color of a clear sky? blue
#2 What is another word for naked? (The tree had no fruit or leaves so it was _____________) bare
#3 What is the number that comes in between 7 and 9 when counting? eight
#4 What word is often used to begin a letter? dear
#5 What word means having a rough and weak sound because of illness or too much use? hoarse
Nouns
#1 What is a round or nearly round object? ball
#2 Who is the sister of one's mother or father? aunt
#3 What are articles of clothing called? clothes
#4 What is a large body of water? sea
#5 What is another word for metal? steel
Miscellaneous
#1 What is the tiny unit of plant or animal life that has a nucleus and is surrounded by a very thin membrane? cell
#2 What word means to look at? see
#3 What word means to be introduced to someone? meet
#4 What word means to take from another without permission or right? steal
#5 What is the star that lights our solar system called? sun
Final Question
What are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings called? HOMOPHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!