Outside Words
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Tricky Compound Words
100

A place where kids play

playground

100

A room where you sleep

bedroom

100

A person who puts out fires

firefighter

100

A place where letters go

mailbox

100

Doing something wrong

wrongdoing

200

A path people walk on

sidewalk

200

Work that uses paper forms

paperwork

200

A person who teaches students

teacher

200

A place where planes land

airport

200

A soft-cover book

paperback

300

When the sun comes up

sunrise

300

A bag you carry on your back

backpack

300

A person who drives buses

busdriver

300

A card you mail from vacation

postcard

300

A long passage inside a building

hallway

400

A flower that looks toward the sun

sunflower

400

A shelf for books

bookshelf

400

A person who catches fish

fisherman

400

A paper title at the top of a story

headline

400

Pads that protect your knees

kneepads

500

A swing hanging from a tire

tireswing

500

Work you do at home after school

homework

500

A person who tells stories in the news

newscaster

500

A road under the ground or city

subway

500

A coat you wear in the rain

raincoat

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