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Vocab Words Unit 8-9
Aud,Son,Phon and Tact,Tang,Tag,Tig Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words. |
| Audible | Able to be heard |
| Audio | The sound portion of a broadcast |
| Auditorium | A large room that accommodates an audience, often for meetings or performances. |
| Cacophony | Harsh sounds; noisy or disturbing sounds. |
| Phonograph | A record player; a machine that reproduces sound. |
| Resonate | To vibrate or repeat in sound; to correspond harmoniously |
| Sonar | Echolocation; a system using transmitted and reflected underwater sound waves to detect and locate submerged objects. |
| Sonnet | A poem with 14 lines that usually sounds like one of several conventional rhyme schemes. |
| Unison | Words or music produced by more than one person that sounds as if from one voice. |
| Contact | State or condition of touching |
| Contagious | Capable of transmitting an illness, infection, or disease by touch |
| Contiguous | Adjacent; touching; sharing an edge or boundary |
| Entangle | To become twisted together; making it complicated to free two things from touching |
| Intact | Whole; complete, not damaged by touch |
| Tactile | Perceptible to the touch; used for feeling |
| Tangent | Touching at a single point, but not intersecting or a sudden change of topic |
| Tangible | Able to be touched, real, not abstract |
| Tangled | Touching in a snarl; knotted |
| Tangy | A sharp taste or flavor immediately sensed upon touch with the tongue |