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When words are spelled differently, but pronounced the same, and have two different meanings, they are called homonyms.

close, clothes

weight, wait

meet, meat

bald, bawled, balled

ad, add

For a complete list of homonyms, see http://www.abcteach.com/free/l/list_homonyms.pdf

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