The English language includes an interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms (also spelled contranyms, or referred to as autoantonyms) — terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings. When you use these words, be sure the context clearly identifies which meaning is intended:
1. Apology: A statement of contrition for an action, or a defense of one
2. Aught: All, or nothing
3. Bill: A payment, or an invoice for payment
4. Bolt: To secure, or to flee
5. Bound: Heading to a destination, or restrained from movement
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Buckle: To connect, or to break or collapse
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Cleave: To adhere, or to separate
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Clip: To fasten, or detach
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Consult: To offer advice, or to obtain it
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Continue: To keep doing an action, or to suspend an action
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Custom: A common practice, or a special treatment
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Dike: A wall to prevent flooding, or a ditch
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Discursive: Moving in an orderly fashion among topics, or proceeding aimlessly in a discussion
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Dollop: A large amount (British English), or a small amount
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Dust: To add fine particles, or to remove them
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Enjoin: To impose, or to prohibit
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Fast: Quick, or stuck or made stable
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Fine: Excellent, or acceptable or good enough
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Finished: Completed, or ended or destroyed
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First degree: Most severe in the case of a murder charge, or least severe in reference to a burn
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Fix: To repair, or to castrate
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Flog: To promote persistently, or to criticize or beat
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Garnish: To furnish, as with food preparation, or to take away, as with wages
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Give out: To provide, or to stop because of a lack of supply
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Go: To proceed or succeed, or to weaken or fail
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Grade: A degree of slope, or a horizontal line or position
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Handicap: An advantage provided to ensure equality, or a disadvantage that prevents equal achievement
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Help: To assist, or to prevent or (in negative constructions) restrain
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Hold up: To support, or to impede
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Lease: To offer property for rent, or to hold such property
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Left: Remained, or departed
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Let: Allowed, or hindered
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Liege: A feudal lord, or a vassal
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Literally: Actually, or virtually
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Mean: Average or stingy, or excellent
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Model: An exemplar, or a copy
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Off: Deactivated, or activated, as an alarm
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Out: Visible, as with stars showing in the sky, or invisible, in reference to lights
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Out of: Outside, or inside, as in working out of a specific office
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Overlook: To supervise, or to neglect
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Oversight: Monitoring, or failing to oversee
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Peer: A person of the nobility, or an equal
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Presently: Now, or soon
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Put out: Extinguish, or generate
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Puzzle: A problem, or to solve one
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Quantum: Significantly large, or a minuscule part
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Quiddity: Essence, or a trifling point of contention
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Quite: Rather (as a qualifying modifier), or completely
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Ravel: To entangle, or to disentangle
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Refrain: To desist from doing something, or to repeat
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Rent: To purchase use of something, or to sell use
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Rock: An immobile mass of stone or figuratively similar phenomenon, or a shaking or unsettling movement or action
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Sanction: To approve, or to boycott
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Sanguine: Confidently cheerful, or bloodthirsty
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Scan: To peruse, or to glance
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Screen: To present, or to conceal
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Seed: To sow seeds, or to shed or remove them
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Shop: To patronize a business in order to purchase something, or to sell something
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Skin: To cover, or to remove
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Skinned: Covered with skin, or with the skin removed
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Splice: To join, or to separate
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Stakeholder: One who has a stake in an enterprise, or a bystander who holds the stake for those placing a bet
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Strike: To hit, or to miss in an attempt to hit
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Table: To propose (in British English), or to set aside
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Temper: To soften, or to strengthen
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Throw out: To dispose of, or to present for consideration
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Transparent: Invisible, or obvious
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Trim: To decorate, or to remove excess from
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Trip: A journey, or a stumble
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Unbending: Rigid, or relaxing
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Variety: A particular type, or many types
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Wear: To endure, or to deteriorate
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Weather: To withstand, or to wear away
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Wind up: To end, or to start up
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With: Alongside, or against
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