those bells ring? 26. Looking through the window, I saw an enormous saw on sale at the hardware store. 27. a) I rose up from my seat to sharpen my rose coloured pencil. b) I picked up a rose from my garden for day. 28. a) I tear my mother’s paper because it sounds bad when you hear it. b) My eyes tear when I see my report card. 29. a) The well started to flood because too much water came in. b) done, Max. You “Well finished your 30. a) The fan broke down so I math homework.” know how to cool myself. b) I am a fan of Owl City, a didn’t one man band whose new song is really great. “Firefly” Paronyms There are several meanings of the word paronym. The term paronym comes from the Greek and para onoma “beside” Paronyms are the words that are kindred in origin, “name”. sound form and meaning and therefore liable to be mixed but in fact different in meaning and usage and therefore only mistakenly interchanged. Paronym is a word similar to another in sound; the partial coincidence in outward form occurs simply by chance and is not conditioned by semantic or word-formation processes. Some scholars regard as paronyms words with the same root that are similar in structure or sound and are the same part of speech or have common grammatical features. But the definition that shows up most often is that “paronyms are words pronounced alike, but have different or meanings”, in other words, words that have the same root. Another word for paronym is cognate. This is the case with the adjectives and ingenious The first of these means and may be used ingenuous. “clever” both of man and of his inventions and doings, e. g. an means ingenious craftsman, an ingenious device. Ingenuous as an ingenuous smile. “frank”, “artless”,
those bells ring? 26. Looking through the window, I saw an enormous saw on sale at the hardware store. 27. a) I rose up from my seat to sharpen my rose coloured pencil. b) I picked up a rose from my garden for mother’s day. 28. a) I tear my paper because it sounds bad when you hear it. b) My eyes tear when I see my report card. 29. a) The well started to flood because too much water came in. b) “Well done, Max. You finished your math homework.” 30. a) The fan broke down so I didn’t know how to cool myself. b) I am a fan of Owl City, a one man band whose new song “Firefly” is really great. Paronyms There are several meanings of the word paronym. The term paronym comes from the Greek para “beside” and onoma “name”. Paronyms are the words that are kindred in origin, sound form and meaning and therefore liable to be mixed but in fact different in meaning and usage and therefore only mistakenly interchanged. Paronym is a word similar to another in sound; the partial coincidence in outward form occurs simply by chance and is not conditioned by semantic or word-formation processes. Some scholars regard as paronyms words with the same root that are similar in structure or sound and are the same part of speech or have common grammatical features. But the definition that shows up most often is that “paronyms are words pronounced alike, but have different meanings”, or in other words, words that have the same root. Another word for paronym is cognate. This is the case with the adjectives ingenious and ingenuous. The first of these means “clever” and may be used both of man and of his inventions and doings, e. g. an ingenious craftsman, an ingenious device. Ingenuous means “frank”, “artless”, as an ingenuous smile.