{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes",
 "id": "fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes",
 "title": "Word Play: Homophones, Palindromes and Fun Words",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Word Play",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Words that sound alike, read the same backward, and other word fun.",
 "tags": [
  "word play",
  "homophones",
  "palindromes"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Fun fact",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Palindrome",
   "A word or phrase that reads the same backward and forward"
  ],
  [
   "Mom",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Dad",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Wow",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Racecar",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Level",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Radar",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Kayak",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Madam",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Noon",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Civic",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "Refer",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama",
   "A famous palindrome sentence"
  ],
  [
   "Was it a car or a cat I saw?",
   "A palindrome sentence"
  ],
  [
   "Homophone",
   "Words that sound the same but are spelled differently"
  ],
  [
   "to, too, two",
   "Homophones: to the park, too hot, two cats"
  ],
  [
   "there, their, they're",
   "Homophones: over there, their dog, they're happy"
  ],
  [
   "see, sea",
   "Homophones: see with eyes, the sea is salty"
  ],
  [
   "write, right",
   "Homophones: write a note, turn right"
  ],
  [
   "night, knight",
   "Homophones: dark night, a knight in armor"
  ],
  [
   "knew, new",
   "Homophones: I knew it, a new toy"
  ],
  [
   "flower, flour",
   "Homophones: a pretty flower, flour for baking"
  ],
  [
   "bear, bare",
   "Homophones: a big bear, bare feet"
  ],
  [
   "hear, here",
   "Homophones: hear with ears, come here"
  ],
  [
   "son, sun",
   "Homophones: a boy, a star"
  ],
  [
   "pair, pear, pare",
   "Homophones: two shoes, a fruit, to peel"
  ],
  [
   "red, read",
   "Homophones: a color, past tense of read"
  ],
  [
   "mail, male",
   "Homophones: letters, boy"
  ],
  [
   "tail, tale",
   "Homophones: a dog's tail, a story"
  ],
  [
   "blue, blew",
   "Homophones: a color, wind blew"
  ],
  [
   "plane, plain",
   "Homophones: a flying plane, a plain shirt"
  ],
  [
   "steak, stake",
   "Homophones: a meat dinner, a pointy stick"
  ],
  [
   "wait, weight",
   "Homophones: wait for a bus, how heavy"
  ],
  [
   "way, weigh",
   "Homophones: a path, to measure weight"
  ],
  [
   "so, sew, sow",
   "Homophones: so happy, sew a button, sow seeds"
  ],
  [
   "ate, eight",
   "Homophones: ate lunch, the number 8"
  ],
  [
   "by, buy, bye",
   "Homophones: by the door, buy a toy, say bye"
  ],
  [
   "dear, deer",
   "Homophones: dear friend, a woodland animal"
  ],
  [
   "whole, hole",
   "Homophones: the whole pie, a hole in the ground"
  ],
  [
   "Homograph",
   "Words spelled the same but with different meanings, like bat"
  ],
  [
   "Bat",
   "An animal that flies, or a stick used in baseball"
  ],
  [
   "Bark",
   "A dog's sound, or the covering of a tree"
  ],
  [
   "Bank",
   "Where money is kept, or the side of a river"
  ],
  [
   "Lead",
   "To guide, or a soft gray metal (said led)"
  ],
  [
   "Wind",
   "Moving air, or to turn something around"
  ],
  [
   "Tear",
   "A drop from the eye, or to rip"
  ],
  [
   "Present",
   "A gift, or here and now"
  ],
  [
   "Close",
   "To shut, or very near"
  ],
  [
   "Contronym",
   "A word that means its own opposite, like 'cleave'"
  ],
  [
   "Anagram",
   "A word made by rearranging the letters of another, like listen and silent"
  ],
  [
   "Listen",
   "An anagram of silent"
  ],
  [
   "Evil",
   "An anagram of live (or vile)"
  ],
  [
   "Stressed",
   "Spelled backward it is desserts"
  ],
  [
   "Onomatopoeia",
   "A word that sounds like what it means, like buzz or splash"
  ],
  [
   "Buzz",
   "An onomatopoeia for a bee's sound"
  ],
  [
   "Splash",
   "An onomatopoeia for water"
  ],
  [
   "Pop",
   "An onomatopoeia for a balloon"
  ],
  [
   "Alliteration",
   "Words close together that start with the same sound"
  ],
  [
   "Pun",
   "A joke that plays on word meanings or sounds"
  ],
  [
   "Idiom",
   "A saying whose meaning is not literal, like 'raining cats and dogs'"
  ],
  [
   "Simile",
   "A comparison using like or as"
  ],
  [
   "Metaphor",
   "A comparison that says one thing is another"
  ],
  [
   "Longest English word in the dictionary (often cited)",
   "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
  ],
  [
   "Longest word with no repeated letter, often cited",
   "Uncopyrightable"
  ],
  [
   "Shortest complete sentence",
   "I am."
  ]
 ]
}