Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index List of homographs in English abuse (n) There is a time, when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence, nor obtain protection. (v) It is the characteristic of the English drunkard to abuse his wife and family. allied (a) The vice is of a great kindred: it is well allied. (a) The Treaty of Vienna..had bound the Allied Powers to make war together upon Napoleon. ally (n) He became the ally of a boy named Aubrey Mills and founded with him a gang of adventurers in the avenue. (v) No foreign power will ally with us. Arkansas articulate bass baton Baton Rouge is home to a thriving Kung Fu community. Baton tossing, when done well, provides excellent parade entertainment. bow breath buffet celtic close contract crooked des does dogged dove (n) The dove is a kind of bird. (v) He dove into the pool. en grace house lead Water traveled through ancient Rome through lead pipes. The mother duck can lead her ducklings around. lima live minute mobile moped oblige overall polish primer produce putting The final step in each hole in golf is putting' the ball across the green into the cup. She is putting on a show for you. ragged read real resume riches separate sewer Broken sewer pipes can be a smelly mess. When my clothes rip, my sister. who is an excellent sewer, fixes them for me. tear terrible use vie voyage whoop wind How did we wind up in Kansas? The wind blew from the northeast. won wound The rope was wound around his wrists. She died from a fatal chest wound. Some words are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable and verbs when it is on the second. When the prefix "re-" is prepended to a monosyllabic word, and the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb, it will probably fit into this pattern, although, as the list below makes clear, most words fitting this pattern do not match that description. Many of these have first syllables that evolved from Latin prepositions, although again that does not account for all of them. Also, some of these words only exhibit the stress alternation in certain varities of English. absent abstract address affect ally attribute combine commune compact compost compound compress concert conduct conflict conscript console consort construct consult content contest contract contrast converse convert convict default defect desert digest discharge dismount display effect entrance exploit extract finance impact implant import impound incense incline increase insert insult intercept interchange intrigue invite object overcount overlay overlook perfect perfume permit pervert present proceeds produce progress project protest purpose rebel recall recap recess record redress refund refuse regress reject relapse remake research retake retard retract subject survey suspect transfer transform transplant transport transpose undercount update uplift upset See also: initial-stress-derived noun This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.