Choose the incorrect homonym pair:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Lunch – Launch

• Lunch means the meal eaten in the middle of the day.
• Launch means to start something new, or to send a rocket or a boat on its way.
• The two words are pronounced differently (lunch, lawnch), so they are not homonyms.

Why the Other Options are Incorrect? Each of these pairs sounds the same, so each is a pair of homonyms.

Option 1: Slay – Sleigh

• Slay means to kill in a violent way.
• Sleigh means a vehicle pulled over snow by horses or dogs.

Option 2: Tacks – Tax

• Tacks means small nails with flat heads.
• Tax means money that people must pay to the government.

Option 3: Guessed – Guest

• Guessed means gave an answer without being sure of it.
• Guest means a person who is invited to someone’s home or to an event.