Choose the incorrect homonym pair:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Custom – Costume

• Custom means a usual way of doing something that people of a place have followed for a long time.
• Costume means a set of clothes worn for a play, a fancy-dress show or a special occasion.
• The two words are pronounced differently (kus-tum, kos-tyoom), 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: Profit – Prophet

• Profit means money gained in business after costs are paid.
• Prophet means a person believed to bring a message from God, or one who tells the future.

Option 3: Knight – Night

• Knight means a soldier of high rank in old times who fought on horseback.
• Night means the time of darkness between evening and morning.

Option 4: Throne – Thrown

• Throne means the special chair of a king or queen.
• Thrown means the past participle (V3) of “throw”.