Monday, January 5, 2015

DOUBLE TAKE II
Credit: GAMES Magazine
July/August, 1980
Marjorie Hall

Answer each clue with two words which are stressonyms - that is, words which are spelled the same but pronounced differently - due to a change in stress or syllabication.

1. Abandon the Sahara
2. Very small span of time
3. Condense a legal document
4. Make fruits and vegetables
5. Wrong person who is sick in bed
6. Talk the opposite way
7. Introduce a gift
8. Don't accept trash
9. Protest something
10. Make scented sticks angry
11. Shove a meal on a table

Answers:

1. Desert the desert
2. Minute minute
3. Contract a contract 
4. Produce produce
5. Invalid invalid
6. Converse converse
7. Present a present
8. Refuse refuse
9. Object to an object
10. Incense incense
11. Buffet a buffet
 


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