English Vocabulary
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- Figurative
- A figure of speech that doesn't really mean what it says
- Antonym
- A word of opposite meaning
- Literal
- A figure of speech that means exactly what it says
- Dictionary
- A book giving the meaning and pronunciation of words listed in alphabetical order
- Encyclopedia
- Books that have information about topics, that are in alphabetical order
- Compound noun
- Two words joined together to form one new noun
- Noun
- A word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea
- Homonym
- A word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning and spelling
- Opinion
- Your belief based on experience but not on true knowledge
- Collective noun
- The name of a group of people, places, or things
- Cause
- A person or thing that brings about a result
- Abbreviation
- A short form of a word
- Fact
- Something that really exists or has happened
- Parts of Speech
- A class of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections, or prepositions) identified by the kinds of ideas they express and the work they do in a sentence
- Analogy
- A likeness in one or more ways between two things
- Almanac
- A book containing a calendar and facts about the rising and setting of the sun and moon that farmers use for crop planting and harvesting
- Simile
- An expression using like or as to show that two things are like each other in a certain way
- Atlas
- A book of maps
- Plural noun
- The name of more than one person, place, thing, or idea
- Proper Noun
- The name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea
- Synonym
- A word that has the same meaning as another word
- Personification
- An expression where an animal represents a person
- Metaphor
- An expression showing that two things have similar qualities
- Guide words
- The words at the top of a dictionary page the tell you the first and last words on that page
- Thesaurus
- A reference source that lists words and their synonyms or antonyms
- Common noun
- The name of a general type of person, place, thing, or idea
- Effect
- The result of a cause
- Telephone book
- A book with name, addresses and phone numbers of people and businesses
- Hyphen
- A short dash between parts of a word