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noun • organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water | ||||||||
| 29% | 4 | A homophone for 'belle' | ||||||
noun • a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck • a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) • a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed • English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) • the sound of a bell being struck • United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) • (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. • the shape of a bell • a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument • the flared opening of a tubular device verb • attach a bell to | ||||||||
| 29% | 9 | Homophone mystery involving words spelled the same but pronounced differently | ||||||
noun • two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) | ||||||||
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