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load (LOHD) (noun)
1. Something that is lifted and carried: Bradley was carrying not just two papers, but a substantial load of legal papers in his briefcase.
2. Something that causes worry or sadness: Addie's death is a heavy load to bear.
2. Something that causes worry or sadness: Addie's death is a heavy load to bear.
load (LOHD) (verb)
To cause a program, file, etc. to start functioning or to be displayed on the computer's monitor: This new program takes less time to load now than it did before.
lode (LOHD) (noun)
An amount of material, figuratively or literally, that fills a space; such as, a crack in a rock or a deposit of valuable information: In Josie's books, she appeared to mine the seemingly endless lode of her personal life.
The library's collection of old newspapers has proven to be a mother lode of information about the town's early history.
lowed (LOHD) (verb)
To have made or to have uttered the sound that is characteristic of cattle: Karin could hear the cattle as they lowed in the pasture.
When the miners were moving a load of sand, they discovered a lode of silver ore. They loaded the ore on the cart drawn by oxen which lowed quietly as they descended the mountain.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group L; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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