What can change its meaning with a shift in tone, yet remains the same in form?
Category: Wordplay · Difficulty: hard
Hint: Consider words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Answer
A homonym
Explanation
The riddle focuses on homonyms, which have the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings.
This is a hard wordplay riddle — a tricky one that takes a little thought. The answer is A homonym.
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