ESL Taxonomy A-L
Terms
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- conjunction
- a word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses
- knowledge
- what is known or learned through study or experience
- biography
- the story of a person's life written by another person
- antonym
- a word opposite in meaning to another word
- dictionary
- a book that lists words in alphabetical order and gives their meanings, pronunciations, and etc.
- foreshadow
- to be a sign of something to come
- linguistics
- the study of language
- grammar
- the study of the forms of words and of the way they are arranged in phrases, clauses and sentences
- encyclopedia
- a book (or set of books) that contains articles about many different topics listed in alphabetical order
- homonym
- a word that is pronounced like another word but that has a different meaning and is usually spelled differently
- journal
- a written record (sometimes daily)
- inference
- a conclusion or opinion arrived at by reasoning