Tuesday Trickesters: Licker -- Limn
It's Tuesday again! Time for more difficult words -- homophones -- that we all need to pay attention to! They're the ones that sound the same (or nearly so), but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
Licker (n.): one who licks
Liquor (n.): an alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than by fermentation; a rich broth resulting from the prolonged cooking of meat of vegetables
Lie (v.): to recline (I will lie down later.); (n.): an untruth (Bob told us a lie earlier.)
Lye (n.): an alkaline聽liquid made by leaching聽ashes (usually wood ashes).
Lieu (n): instead of or in place of something (In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the XXX charity.)
Loo (n.): a card game played for a pool made up of stakes and forfeits; (colloquial) British: a toilet
Lightening (v.): making something lighter such as a burden, a color, or a mood
Lightning (n.): a bolt of energy from a storm cloud; a flash of light that is caused by the discharge of electricity in the atmosphere
Limb (n.): a part that extends from the trunk of a body, as an arm, leg, or wing; a large branch of a tree
Limn (v.): to paint or draw; to portray in words; to describe; to outline or highlight
Were any of these words new to you? I had to look up limn, I didn't know that loo 聽is a card game, and I was totally wrong on the definition of lye.
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Susan 馃悵 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess
7 years ago #6
Lisa Gallagher
7 years ago #5
Susan 馃悵 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess
7 years ago #4
Trust you to find out all that, Larry Boyer! Many thanks; I had NO idea about lou meaning love.
Susan 馃悵 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess
7 years ago #3
Thanks so much for sharing the post, @Kate HIckery! I really appreciate that!
Larry Boyer
7 years ago #2
Susan 馃悵 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess
7 years ago #1
I had seen limn before, but I couldn't even hazard a guess on it, Franci\ud83d\udc1d Eugenia Hoffman! Glad the words helped!