Module 2 Word Play vocabulary - Lessons 1-4

Playful or clever use of words to create humor.

• Phantom

• Pun

• Wordplay

• Tollbooth

A humorous play on words based on two words or phrases that are close in sound but different in meaning.

• Peculiar

• Pun

• Homographs

• Phantom

Seemingly real but actually not real.

• Tollbooth

• Wordplay

• Peculiar

• Phantom

Abnormal or different from the usual expectation.

• Peculiar

• TollBooth

Two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

• Homophones

• Homographs

Two or more words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and different meanings.

• Tollbooth

• Homographs

• Homophones

A small building in which payments are collected so that passage on or access to a roadway.

• Phantom

• Pun

• Wordplay

• Tollbooth