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Find it in the Dictionary
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Before
What is pre?
100
Restating the same word with another word that means the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
In this comparison analogy, happy : sad :: rough :
What is smooth?
100
Word history or study of words.
What is etymology?
100
An alphabetical listing of words in a language.
What is a dictionary?
200
not mature
What is immature?
200
Means the opposite.
What is antonym?
200
In the Relationship analogy, speak : talk :: gather : collect. These words are this type of word.
What is Synonyms?
200
Foreign language that the English word Taco come from.
What is Spanish?
200
appear at the top of each dictionary page to identify the first word on the page and last word on a page.
What is guide word?
300
able to like
What is likable?
300
Fish has these, we measure weight with these, and they are used in music
What is scales?
300
polite : rude :: high : low is an example of this type of word.
What is Antonym?
300
A french word that means a dead-end-street
What is cup-de-sac?
300
The dictionary is imaginarily divided into 4 of these?
What is Quartiles?
400
comes from the root word that means earth
What is geo
400
A person might have a nice figure which is a noun, but if you figure out a math problem it is this part of speech.
What is verb?
400
Object to Function clock : time :: speedometer :
What is speed?
400
This latin word means and a number of other things. You see it in at the end of a series of words. It is usually abbreviated.
What is et cetera (etc.)
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Gives the word's pronunciation, meaning, origin, grammatical forms, and part of speech.
What is an entry?
500
System of trains, planes, and buses that carry people from one place to another.
What is transportation?
500
Can be a living thing that grows, but a it can also be a place where things are manufactured.
What is plant
500
bulb : lamp :: mattress : bed is this kind of analogy.
What is Part to Whole?
500
A spanish word that Doris Day once used in her opening song for her 1950's T.V. show. It means what will be, will be.
What is que sera sera?
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The most popular dictionary is this type of dictionary
What is Webster's Dictionary?