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Word of the Day for Sunday, January 23, 2011homograph \HOM-uh-graf\, noun: A word of the same written form as another but of different meaning, whether pronounced the same way or not. She would pronounce the English word with a real fear, and found its close French homograph absurd, stupidly naval and military. It may help to remember the definition of the word homograph by looking at its parts. Homograph conbines the Greek roots homos, "same," and graphos, "drawn or written." | |||||||||
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