Homographs
Homographs are spelled identically but pronounced differently depending on meaning: you lead a team with a vowel that rhymes with seed, but lead the metal rhymes with red. Only context tells you which. Each word here has two valid pronunciations, so listen for the one the list uses and look up its partner.
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