Homophones (Handout #1)

Can you identify the pairs of homophones (words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same) based on the given definitions? The ant/aunt example is an illustration of what you are asked to do.
If the definitions do not give you enough to work with, you can look at the hints at the bottom of the page, where one of the words from each pair is listed.



Word 1    Word 2    Definitions   
 ant   aunt   a colony insect/your father's sister 
     a duo/a fruit 
     to scrape and shred/magnificent 
     Bambi/beloved 
     beams of light/lift 
     immobile/paper for letters 









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Hints (one word from each pair):
dear, great, stationary, pear, rays