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Heteronyms #4

A heteronym is a word that has a different meaning and pronunciation from another word with the same spelling. How many of these can you figure out?

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Definition 1
Definition 2
Heteronym
A base coat of wall paint used to hide imperfections, e.g.
(In some, but not all dialects, Definition 2 is pronounced differently from Definition 1) A children’s book for teaching reading, writing and spelling
Primer
An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it
One who produces a visual representation of a person or thing by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
Drawer
Pale, having a pallor
In the UK, a type of semicircular meat pie
Pasty
To accomplish or perform
A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale
Do
A member of a Christian religious community of women
The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Nun
The top of the head
A finely-ground paste of meat or fish
Pate
Well skilled, thoroughly proficient
One who is fully skilled in something
Adept
Made or kept hidden
Concealed
Secreted
To encourage support for something
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone
Advocate
An ad, in the UK
To take notice of
Advert
A race in which batons are handed off
To pass on or transfer
Relay
To increase the amount, degree or number of
In many ways
Multiply
A cat or a kitten
Containing a discharge of dead white blood cells and bacteria
Pussy
To chat
The opposite or reverse
Converse
Any amusing or stimulating activity
A reproduction of something previously created
Recreation
A description of the location of a property
To direct one’s remarks to
Address
A member of a group of associated things
To associate oneself with an individual or organization
Affiliate
A type of lustrous jet-black bird
To devour with eagerness
Raven
To attach
An appendage
Affix
Foam or suds
A turner; one who uses a lathe
Lather
To induce someone to adopt (e.g.) a religion or belief
One in favor of something they previously opposed
Convert
Intentional
To consider carefully
Deliberate
Having one or more bends or angles
Formed into a hook
Crooked
The skin shed by a reptile
A muddy or marshy area (UK) or a type of swamp (US)
Slough
One who has a biochemical addiction
To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity
Addict
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