OPPOSITES AND HOMOGRAPHS
Credit: GAMES Magazine - July, 1986
Richard Lederer
What do the following pairs of words have in common?
HEAVY - DARK
YOUNG - NEW
WRONG - LEFT
WIN - FIND
COARSE - SICK
SOFT - EASY
Answer:
Both words in each pair are opposites of the same word:
LIGHT
OLD
RIGHT
LOSE
FINE
HARD
Another way of saying it is that the six answer words are homographs - words which have at least two different meanings. Each word in the question pairs is an opposite of one of those meanings. (Ex. LIGHT and HEAVY / LIGHT and DARK)
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