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What emotion is an anagram of a homophone of an antonym of a homophone of an anagram of wolf?
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Fear.The anagram of wolf is fowl. The homophone of fowl is foul. The antonym of foul is fair. The homophone of fair is fare. The anagram of fare is fear, which is the emotion.
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Gonna go to my faves!
Yay! First one!!
Yay! First one!!
Darn it! Got it wrong. Antonym of foul I was certain was sweet. I was thinking foul as in nasty rather than foul ball. Next time...
I started with flow... need more coffee...
I was way off base on this one but good job
I got this one and can't believe I did. I love the backwards sequence! Could my name have anything to do with it? Good teaser!
Dec 31, 2006
These aren't homonyms; homonyms are spelled and pronounced EXACTLY alike, but with different meanings. Such as "quail"-the bird and the verb. Homophones are what are used here.... sound the same but spelled slightly different.
Wow I loved this teaser, but it was really hard, I agree with erkgirl, so I was a little miffed with the homonym thing.
Whew! I had to take a deep breath on that one. Way to go.
"Homonyms are, in the strictest sense, both homophones and homographs, alike in spelling and pronunciation, as the two forms bear. Homonym, however, is used more frequently than homophone, a technical term, when referring to words with the same pronunciation without regard to spelling. Homonym is also used as a synonym of homograph. Thus, it has taken on a broader scope than either of the other two terms and is often the term of choice in a nontechnical context."
-Dictionary.com
-Dictionary.com
Hmm, I'd neverknown a pair of homonyms could be spelled the same! I use the term homophone easily enough (I construct Cryptic crossword puzzles), but the term for two words with the same spelling but distinctly different meanings (like fair being light-skinned, evenhanded, or a carnival) was graphonym, and they were expressly NOT homonyms. And then there are the heteronyms, like "I'm content with the content of this post."
Loved this one!! It made the brain work a little but it was solvable....and fun. More of these, please!!!!
HUH?? You sure lost me.
This is and was fun! Quit worrying about the other comments, and make a comment toward the teaser. If you work long enough on any given words, you should be able to find a few appropriate words to fit this condition Keep up the totally awesome work! I enjoyed it, immensely!
Homonyms are spelled the same, this one used homophones. Sorry, I don't think they can be interchanged, but good puzzle anyway. I will pass it on with corrections!
I'll give this a try once I learn the diff between homonyms, homophones & homographs. All very thoght provoking.
Very good teaser. I've been visiting this site a lot lately and this is one of the best I have seen (but I did like the chemistry one as well). What would be the point of doing an anagram of a word spelled the same?
I will continue to enjoy this site.
I will continue to enjoy this site.
I thought this was great.Something like grated cheese that slipped though the grates of my mind and never grated on my nerves. It got me smiling - which is a good thing
This is my second comment - but I had to comment on the comments. Reading THEM is half the fun! Now let the New Year commence.
I like this teaser because I love working with words. By the way, homophones sound alike, homographs are spelled alike, and they all fall under the category of homonyms. (Use your dictionary!)
I believe we've had this discussion before.
I believe we've had this discussion before.
Good one!!
Nice one! Unique and confusingly fun!
Very good teaser. I got it right, but I needed a thesaurus to get the antonym of foul.
I enjoyed this one. Quick & easy, but very fun! Even a little bit of a tie-in with the title, wolf, and fear. Well done!
How weird. I thought, there are several antonyms to FOUL, and homonym and homophone mean differently, right? (See above.) However, a little imagination and I was able to get it, not to mention that I've been wrong before.
Oh yeah, and I thought how cool it was to have such a compact, yet challenging, teaser.
I thought of "fear" right away but I ended up getting the answer by going from the last word back to the first. I was taught eons ago that homonyms sound alike but are spelled differently. All the comments on the other homo... types were quite confusing.
Fantastic teaser. Keep them coming!
great teaser !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep them comming
That was great!
the first one i got by myself!!!
YAY!!!!!!
YAY!!!!!!
Wow, that was great fun!! I was so intrigued about what the solution would be, and now I'm feeling chilled that I was actually in search of FEAR all along.
But I started with FLOW like someone else above, and then of course I couldn't find an antonym for FLOE. My sister, who is visiting this week, noticed that the WOLF was also hiding FOWL, and we gleefully progressed from there. I eventually thought of baseball FOUL and its antonym FAIR, though immediately after that I thought of Frodo's comment about how if Strider was a spy he would "seem fairer and feel fouler".
But I started with FLOW like someone else above, and then of course I couldn't find an antonym for FLOE. My sister, who is visiting this week, noticed that the WOLF was also hiding FOWL, and we gleefully progressed from there. I eventually thought of baseball FOUL and its antonym FAIR, though immediately after that I thought of Frodo's comment about how if Strider was a spy he would "seem fairer and feel fouler".
i could'nt keep that one straight in my mind long enough to figure it out.
i love this....more please!!!
it was challenging since i ament good at word things
but fun
nice teaser keep then comming
but fun
nice teaser keep then comming
I'm barking and my High School English teacher mom is laughing at my complete ineptitude at solving this teaser I learned alot by reading the answer. Txs for the mind-blower
Yay! got it right! great teaser!
Great job. More please?
Kind of confusing but still good.
Kind of confusing but still good.
That was fun!
That was fun!
Antonym of new is old,just like this teaser.
This teaser was just plain wrong. Homonyms are two words that are spelled the same but have two different meanings. Fowl and foul are heterographs.
Fowl is defined by the webster dictionary as
1 : a bird of any kind
Foul is defined by the webster dictionary as
1 a : offensive to the senses
They mean different things. They are homenyms.
1 : a bird of any kind
Foul is defined by the webster dictionary as
1 a : offensive to the senses
They mean different things. They are homenyms.
That was EXCELLENT! How did you ever think of such a puzzle?
I got flow and bogged down. Never thought of fowl.
Oh, this one hurt my brain. Great sequencing though! Good job!
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That's a good one. I picked the wrong antonym of foul so I got lost.
I did not even try!
Only got up to 'foul'. Nice teaser.
XD I got it using common sense. I saw all of that homo, syno, anto, confusion and was like....duuuuuuuh.
Wolf = Fear. Then i looked at the answer and boom bam, I got it.
Best teaser i ever read, for the sheer compact size and level of challenge.
Wolf = Fear. Then i looked at the answer and boom bam, I got it.
Best teaser i ever read, for the sheer compact size and level of challenge.
Even though I am a "Wolf" I "fear" I didn't get it!
HA HA gailwolf that was funny. I didn't get it either. I usually don't but it took some thinking to make this one up.
I like this kind of puzzle and usually do well with them - but - I got as far as an anagram of wolf = flow, and was stuck right there! Ended up just looking up the answer - /really great puzzle regardless of how far off I was!!
I missed the first 'anagram of' so only got as far as 'fare'. References to 'homonym' should be corrected to 'homophone' to avoid confusion. For example:
row (to propel a boat) and row (a line of objects) are homonyms. They have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings.
row (to propel a boat) and row (to argue) are homographs. They have the same spelling but different pronunciations and meanings.
row (to propel a boat) and rho (the Greek letter) are homophones. They sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings.
Fair/fare and fowl/foul are therefore homphones, not homonyms.
row (to propel a boat) and row (a line of objects) are homonyms. They have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings.
row (to propel a boat) and row (to argue) are homographs. They have the same spelling but different pronunciations and meanings.
row (to propel a boat) and rho (the Greek letter) are homophones. They sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings.
Fair/fare and fowl/foul are therefore homphones, not homonyms.
gaylewolf...in 2006 you said you got it and in 2012 you say you did not. Why, I am wondering, is that? You are usually good at these things. Just curious. I did not even try as I said in 2012. Tee Hee!
easy and fun; once you figured out the homonym/homophone thing
EZ just start at the end and work backwards. This was FUN!
Babe, your comment made me laugh! I guess I'm just losing it! LOL Happy New Year everyone
You're all weird...
It took me ten minutes to figure out that it wasn't 'flow'!
Difficult teaser but very fun!
Happy New Year!
Difficult teaser but very fun!
Happy New Year!
Loved it! I was thinking flow for a little bit, but as soon as I got fowl, the rest just "flowed"... *knee slap*
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; only took a couple of minutes to get this one but I enjoyed the challenge.
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