Two Meanings
This one is an age old puzzler. And there is more than one answer, so just be aware of that. There may be many answers, actually.
Here we go.
As you all probably know, there are words that are opposites, and they're called antonyms. For example, hot and cold, up and down, Click and Clack...
So the puzzler is, can you think of two words that are their own antonyms?
I'm gonna give you two as an example, because I know there are more.
The first one is cleave. I'll give you a sentence. You cleave things apart with a meat cleaver, or your lug nuts may cleave to your studs, making them impossible to remove without a very hot torch. In this case, cleave means to pull apart, and to stay together.
The other example is the word sanction. And here's a sentence as an example. NASCAR sanctions stock car races, but a driver that runs another into a wall may be sanctioned by NASCAR. In this case, the word means to allow, and then to not allow.
It's clear that in these two instances, cleave has two meanings which are diametrically opposed, and so does sanction.
The question, very simply is, are there other words like this? And if there are, what are they?
