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  • What are the words on top of a page that help you find a word called?
    Guide Words
  • How does seeing a word broken into syllables help someone?
    It can help them to pronounce a word.
  • What is normally found in brackets near to the entry word?
    pronunciation
  • What is the word that is defined called?
    Entry Word
  • How are the words in a dictionary organized?
    In alphabetical order
  • What does a thesaurus do?
    Provide the synonym of entry words
  • Sometimes the definition of certain words are found in the back of a book. What is this called?
    Glossary
  • What are words with opposite meanings called?
    Antonyms
  • Where are guide words found?
    The top of the page
  • What is etymology?
    The origin of a word.
  • Other than the definition, what are three other things we can learn about a word from the dictionary?
    etymology (origin), pronunciation, part of speech, use in a sentence, plural form, synonym
  • List three examples of parts of Speech
    nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, interjection
  • How many syllables does the word etymology have?
    5
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