words Archives | Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/tag/words/ Best-Selling Christian Author Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:54:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://philipyancey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-pyfavicon-32x32.png words Archives | Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/tag/words/ 32 32 Word Play https://philipyancey.com/word-play/ https://philipyancey.com/word-play/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:54:50 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=12006 Visitors to my Facebook page and website have proved that they love words. Here’s a test: Do you know what an eponym is? Homonyms are words with more than one meaning, such as rock, or fall. Synonyms mean nearly the same thing as another word, while antonyms mean the opposite. Acronyms combine the initial letters ... Read more

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