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aud/son/phon/tig/tag
Vocabulary words with the prefixes aud, son, phon, tig, tag, tang, and tac.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 and performances. |
| Cacophony | Harsh sounds; noisy or disturbing sounds. |
| Phonograph | A record player; a machine that produces 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 many conventional rhyme schemes. |
| Unison | Words or music produced by more than one person that sounds as if from one voice. |
| Contact | The state or condition of touching. |
| Contagious | Capable of transmitting a disease, illness, or infection but touch. |
| Contiguous | Adjacent; touching; sharing an edge or a 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 touch; used for feeling. |
| Tangent | Touching at a single point, but not intersecting; a 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. |