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AudsonphonTTTT
aud/son/phon and tact/tang/tag/tig
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aud, son, phon | sound, to hear |
| tact, tang, tag, tig | touch |
| 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 |