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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