HETERONYMS  III

Some of the most interesting words in English are heteronyms. These are words that have two distinctly different pronunciations and meanings, even though they are spelled exactly the same - the same word pronounced two different ways with two different meanings. DOVE, for example, when pronounced with a long "o", is the past tense of dive. When it is pronounced with a short "o", it's a kind of bird.

Each clue below lists one of the definitions of a heteronym. Can you identify the heteronym and determine its other pronunciation and meaning?

1. What you say when you get married

2. A rank, row of seats, or layer of a cake

3. Rain, meteor, or stall

4. What you do to a book 

5. Go back to doing something

(The following are "near" heteronyms, because the spelling varies by the use a capital letter.)

5. Employment
6. Type of bean

Answers:

1. "I DO," and DO, RE, MI)
2. TIER and "One who TIES"
3. SHOWER and "One who shows"

4. READ and "You READ the book last year."

5. RESUME and a summary of work history (final "e" has long "a" sound)

(READ is a unique heteronym in that it is its own present and past tense.)

5. job and Job,  the Biblical character renowned for his patience
6. lima and Lima, Peru