TWO-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS

Each clue below leads to a two-syllable heteronym (a single word that is pronounced two distinctly different ways - each pronunciation having a different meaning. (Heteronyms do not include words like present, where the different pronunciations and meanings are due to a shift in stress and/or syllabication. These words are called stressonyms.) 

1. Remain smeared with pitch

2. Placing golf shots on the green

3.  A rose is like a river.

4. AAA truck is like a Paris landmark

5. 2 or 3 with less feeling

6. A seamstress or a pipe system

7. Shabby or foolish

Answers:

 

1. TARRY (covered in tar or to remain

2. PUTTING (placing or shots on a green)

3. FLOWER  (a river flows)

4. TOWER (AAA is a tower of cars)

5. NUMBER (silent B in NUMBER - less feeling)

6. SEWER (underground pipes or one who sews)

7. DINGY (soft G - shabby, hard G - foolish)

*Not to be confused with DINGHY -  a small boat (DINGHY is a homophone (sounds the same but spelled differently) for hard-G  DINGY).

Credit:

1-2: Marjory Hall

        GAMES Magazine

        July/August, 1980