Homonyms for Kids III Trivia Quiz

Answer: where

Where - is a word used to ask in or at what place. There is a place in Western Australia where dolphins, who live in the sea, have made friends with people, who live on land, of course, we meet in the shallows and say hello to each other in a place called Monkey Mia. Yes it is awesome.
If you are fishing in the sea and a pod of dolphins start swimming around, then you can stop fishing as what the dolphins are doing are rounding up the school of fish and feeding on them. Dolphins work as a team so they can all eat.
Wear, is to carry, or have, on the body or person. We're is a contraction, it comes from the words "we are". The word ware means articles of merchandise or items that are sold in shops. We're going to where the dolphins swim, I wonder what ware we will wear to keep the sun from where it will shine on our heads?

Answer: whey

Whey is what separates as a watery liquid from the curd, after binding it together in cheese making. It seems little Miss Muffet was eating liquid with hard bits of cheese floating in it, mmmm.... maybe the spider did Miss Muffet a really big favor. To weigh something or someone is to ascertain how heavy it is against a scale from a unit of measurement of weight. Way is the manner, mark or fashion.

The WAY someone walks home from school, the WAY or manner in which people from different cultures say hello to each other - WAY is a versatile word.

Answer: born

All human beings come into the world as babies, we are all very small when we are born. My dad always said I was hatched, but he thought he had a sense of humor.
Borne is the past participle of bear.
When we are carrying a load of stones up the hill, in a sack, it is a heavy weight to bear. Yesterday a load of stones was BORNE by me, up a long hill. A BOURN, is a small stream or a boundary for a piece of land. After my nephew Blake was BORN for nine months by my Aunty, she just made it across the bridge, at the BOURN, in time for Blake to be BORN on the other side.

Answer: pour

Louise had broken her arm riding her bicycle. As the doctor had put her arm in a cast Louise's movement in that arm was limited and she knew that if she had tried to POUR herself a glass of milk she would not have been successful. Louise realized that she needed help from her friend.

A PORE is just one of many tiny holes in our skin. We can't see them without a magnifying glass, but our body uses them to control our temperature through perspiration and even shivering and goosebumps when we are cold. Being POOR means that you do not have much money or resources.

A dog or a cat has a PAW at the end of each leg, it is the same as having a foot for a person.

Answer: shore

The SHORE is the area that separates land and water. To be SURE of something is to be certain of it, without error. A SHAW is a copse or a thicket - these are other names for thick bushes.
The tongue twister 'She sells sea shells by the sea shore' is a good method to practice correct diction - that is the correct way to pronounce the words in English language.

Answer: bass

The BASS guitars help the band put sounds together that when played together, make a song sound really good - and sometimes really bad. BASES are what all BASEBALL players love to steal during a game as this gets them to the home plate quicker. The BASIS of learning to write sentences is to enhance and enable communication of our ideas.

Answer: fate

To learn of someone's FATE is to find out what their destiny was and what fortune befell them on their journey. Miriam was anxious to find out the FATE of the pirate. He stole the treasure, then set off for a little island, in a boat he had stolen.
The pirate's FATE had been sealed he was FATED to fail, it was his destiny. The Coast Guard arrested him and charged him with many counts of theft.
A FETE is a small fun-fair with games, stalls and other activities.

Answer: fore

FORE is called out by a golfer who accidentally hits his golf ball into the car park, to me it simply means DUCK QUICKLY.
FOUR is the number FOUR in a sequence e.g ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR. The word QUAD is often used instead of FOUR such as QUADRANGLE - square or a QUADRUPED - an animal with four legs. To QUADRUPLE something is to increase it fourfold.

Answer: adze

An ADZE is an axe.
A person who ADDS is one who does additions such as a student or an accountant.
ADS is a shortened word for advertisements. As annoying as these seem to be, ADS are an enabling form of expression. People pay to have ADS put in place to advertise products or services, this in turn pays for actors, editors, store people and even provides work for people to make the product that is being advertised.

Answer: awful

To say you feel AWFUL, expresses how bad you feel whereas to say the word AWEFUL means the opposite, it means that a beautiful picture you may have seen fills you with AWE or wonder at how something could be so beautiful. These two words sound the same but have two completely different meanings.
OFFAL is a waste product, left-overs of some animal parts a lot of people will not eat, but others like very much.