Fill in the circle of the two sentences that contain the homograph of the word highlighted in the main sentence:

1. My father went through the desert on the trip.

I hope you don’t desert me when I need your help.

The Sahara is a famous desert.

Did he desert his friend to watch TV?

2. Did his mother refuse to let him go to the park?

We put our refuse in the trash when we le".

There was large pile of refuse that needed to be dumped.

I refuse to eat brussel sprouts again.

3. The students need to use lead pencils for the test.

The lead pipe fell off the end of the truck.

Tomas should lead the class to the lunchroom.

John was in the lead for most of the race.

4. Ana needs to wind the clock up so it will work.

Jack and Mollie will fly kites in the wind.

If you wind up the music box, you can hear the song.

The wind blew very hard during the storm.

5. The dove flew into the tree and sat on a branch.

Luis dove into his homework so he could play.

Jude watched as his sister dove into the pool.

The dove ate all the food on the ground.

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Homographs Words that are spelled the same but are not pronounced the same and have different

meanings.

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