Can you name the heteronyms (volume II)?

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Heteronym: a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning.

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Definition 1	Heteronym	Definition 2
Performs an action		Female deer or rabbits
Suitable		To take possession of
To allow		A pass or license
Barren, sandy area		To abandon
To switch to the other side		Flaw
To direct or guide		Behaviour
That which is contained		Satisfied or happy
Brotherly or spiritual love		Open-mouthed in awe or wonder
A way in or doorway		To delight and captivate
One who stitches		Waste water pipe
Female pig		To plant seeds
Perfume burnt in church		To enrage
To feel anger towards		Despatched again
Less sensitive		Total, quantity, count
Another choice		To switch back and forth
Flawless		To make flawless
A documented account		To set down to preserve
Small motorcycle		Sulked
An entertaining or relaxing pastime		Something that is remade
A race in which members of a team take turns		To pass along

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Heteronyms II Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: July 14th, 2009
Category: Language
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Tags: Definition Quizzes, heteronym

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	Giants2082:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	7 points
	don't know how the hell i got the Brotherly or spiritual love haha, just typed in a random word, i guess i knew it subconsciously lol. GREAT quiz! please make more!

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	deej:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	15 points
	also, is "Despatched" a word? Maybe it is appropriate in the UK but on this side of the pond it is "dispatched"

	aloxinbotemill:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	2 points
	Also called homographs

	Niques:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT	6 points
	I love these quizzes. Except for the 'less sensitive' clue - I'd never think to associate that with numbness.

	zalagreensbury:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	20 points
	Ahhhh, moped was very clever indeed. I like.

	mungar:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT	4 points
	Damn! Missed 'agape'. Very surprised it was gotten so much more than seemingly easier ones.

	MRL:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	16 points
	@deej: "Shanghai" doesn't work for #4 because Shanghai is not a barren sandy area.

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	Julian:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 06:11 GMT	17 points
	Incense (n): something burned to produce a pleasant smell. (We burned incense to mask the smell of marijuana in my parents' house.) Incense (v): to anger. (My parents were incensed upon learning that we'd smoked pot in their house.) Agape (n) (1): wide open. (His mouth was agape after the sermon.) Agape (n) (2): Altruistic love, in a Christian context. (The sermon encouraged him to love [agape] his destitute brother.)

	IHateRegistering:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 06:26 GMT	15 points
	This is one of those quizzes that makes you feel dumb after you see what you missed (not that thats a bad thing).

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	debbiedoesnothin:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 06:39 GMT	3 points
	Yikes. That was hard but I loved it.

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	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 08:26 GMT	3 points
	@Duuude: The plural of `deer' is `deer', which is why I put `or rabbits' after it. Note that it's `Female deer', not `A female deer'.

	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 08:27 GMT	11 points
	@Robert: I agree that `strand' fits both definitions but both senses of `strand' are pronounced the same way so it can't be the answer.

	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 08:30 GMT	2 points
	@deej: Both `despatch' and `dispatch' are valid spellings, in both American and British English, though `despatch' is more common in British than it is in American.

	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	3 points
	@MovieDynamic: Were you asking about pronunciation, rather than definition? The perfume is IN-sense; to anger is to in-SENSE. Love is A-guh-pay (short `a' at the start); open-mouthed is uh-GAYP.

	Sausage:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 09:25 GMT	6 points
	Nice one David as ever. I enjoyed moped and number particularly. Didn't do very well overall though - brain not in gear.

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	Catherine_F:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:16 GMT	7 points
	I studied religion for years and I don't remember ever hearing the word agape in that sense. Weird. learns

	Yersin:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:17 GMT	7 points
	I was under the impression that very low levels of rainfall were the distictive feature of deserts. Salt flats, lava deserts and the Antartic are not sandy, but they are deserts.

	Tapestry:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:22 GMT	6 points
	Agape love has been around for a few centuries, used by Plato, early Christians and C.S. Lewis.

	JoeGrzzly:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:34 GMT	-3 points
	After "To direct or guide" could you put in parenthases band. I think that would make it a bit easier to figure out.

	RyanUR:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 12:05 GMT	12 points
	Agape is directly from Greek. They had three words for love: agape, philia, and eros. They all have different meanings. Agape is essentially unconditional love.

	melissa:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 12:20 GMT	8 points
	I love these heteronym quizzes because the experience of answering them is different from most quizzes (at least for me) -- the answers come in quick flashes of insight, rather than swimming up from memory.

	drza:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:00 GMT	12 points
	This hasnt happened in awhile to me but it used to happen a lot and i think its a sporcle trick just to mess with people. I got 11 answers pretty quick,so then i read each of the ones i was missing over and thought about them,at no point in the 7 minutes did i see the clues that said "flawless" and "to make flawless". I really think there are clues that arent there the first time you play just so you can say how the sporcle did the I miss that one!

	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:08 GMT	3 points
	@blueinfinity: I disagree. If I can't feel my toes but you can't feel any parts of your legs, you're number than I am.

	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:12 GMT	5 points
	@Yersin: Technically, it's low precipitation rather than rain (it doesn't rain much in many places north of the Arctic Circle but it snows a lot so it's not a desert). I agree that the current clue is inaccurate but `Areas with very little precipitation' sounds kinda fussy to me. I can get it changed if people feel strongly about it, though.

	procrstinologist:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:18 GMT	2 points
	I didn't know number was technically a word- I would say "more numb." Thanks for the english lesson sporcle!

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	procrstinologist:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:35 GMT	2 points
	You need to put the emphAsis on the right sylAble- I will PERmit you to pass and do you have a perMIT for those fields.

	procrstinologist:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:36 GMT	12 points
	switch those around- perMIT you to pass and PERmit for the fields

	Booger:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:45 GMT	3 points
	Nice job David. Never would have gotten the number one.

	White:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 14:18 GMT	4 points
	Number meaning "more numb" has never, ever occurred to me before. Really enjoyed this one though and would do another one (if there are many possible answers left!) and hopefully if there is I can beat 13/20.

	Kicking222:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 14:22 GMT	3 points
	I love these, though I think I do a lot worse than I should. Good job, David.

	Etheridge2:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	-1 points
	@ procrstinologist to me that one is a tomato/tomato thing I work with permits all the time and I've never pronounced and rarely hear people pronounce them differently, but maybe thats a midwest thing.

	davidr:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 15:46 GMT	1 point
	@Jeremy: I now see that Merriam-Webster gives both PERmit and perMIT for the verb, whereas the O.E.D. only has perMIT, even though it differentiates between British and American pronunciation. (The `r' isn't pronounced in `standard' British English.)

	rsdwv5:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 15:48 GMT	4 points
	@Jeremy...I live in the Midwest and have always heard them pronounced differently. Maybe you need to hear them each said aloud before you can recognize the difference.