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Vocabulary 10 2010
words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Noun | a word that is the name of something (as a person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea, or action) |
| Verb | a word that expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being, an action word |
| Adjective | a word that modifies a noun by describing what it is like |
| Adverb | a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, another word of the same type |
| Pronoun | a word that is used as a substitute for a noun |
| Conjunction | a word or expression that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words |
| Figurative language | Words that are used in ways that aren’t purely literal |
| Personification | Describing something not human by giving it human characteristics |
| Simile | a comparison that isn't literal and uses like or as |
| Metaphor | a non-literal comparison that doesn't use like or as. |