Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word: The bishop wore a mitre embroidered with gold thread.

Correct — A. In the stem, mitre is the tall, pointed headdress a bishop wears as a sign of office.

Here a homonym is the same word with a different meaning. The welder's mitre joint is a corner where two pieces, each cut at 45°, meet at a right angle.

That is joinery and metalwork, not church dress → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  The cardinal’s mitre was trimmed in crimson. — The cardinal's mitre is the same church headdress, worn by a senior churchman and trimmed in crimson. The meaning matches the stem.
• (c)
  The procession displayed an ancient mitre in a glass case. — An ancient mitre in a glass case is an old bishop's headdress on display. The object is historic, but the word means what it means in the stem.
• (d)
  The children admired the sparkling mitre on the altar. — The sparkling mitre on the altar is a headdress resting in a church. The setting changes, the sense does not, so this is the stem's meaning again.

In this question a homonym is the same spelling carrying a different meaning.

Define the stem's word first, then test each option against that definition. The cardinal, the glass case and the altar all keep mitre as the headdress, whatever the setting.

The joint is the sense that fails the test: a mitre joint meets two angled cuts at a corner, as in a picture frame.

Key facts

• Mitre (headdress): the tall, pointed cap a bishop wears as a sign of office.
• Mitre joint: a corner joint where two pieces, each cut at 45°, meet at a right angle.
• Miter is the American spelling of mitre.

Common traps

• Choosing an option because its setting differs from the stem's, a museum case or an altar, when the meaning of mitre stays the same
• Passing over mitre joint because it reads as a technical compound rather than the same word

No directly related past PYQ was found.