Homonyms Quiz: Adapt, Adept, Adopt, Elicit, Illicit
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Which word means 'to change for a situation'?

  • Adept
  • Adapt (correct)
  • Emigrate
  • Elicit

What does 'emigrate' mean?

  • Wood lumber
  • Move out of a country (correct)
  • Ask around for the price
  • Move into a country

Which word refers to 'a rough cloth used for painting'?

  • Timbre
  • Canvass
  • Ellicit
  • Canvas (correct)

What does 'illicit' mean?

<p>Forbidden, bad, unlawful (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which word means 'the quality of sound a person/thing can make'?

<p>Timbre (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Timber refers to a rough cloth used for painting.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Canvass means seriously consider something.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Elicit means to start something.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Emigrate means to move out of a country.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Discrete means separate and distinct.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Adopt means to start something

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Canvas can refer to both a rough cloth used for painting and asking around for the price

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Timber means wood lumber

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Elicit means to evoke or draw out

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Canvass means to move into a country

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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