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vocab for literacy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an acronym? | An acronym is an abbreviation which is made up of the initial letters of a group of words. |
| What is an adjective? | An adjective is a word that describes somebody or something. |
| What is an adverb? | adverbs give meaning to a verb, adjective, another adverb or a whole sentence. |
| What is a compound word? | a word made up of two other words i.e. football. |
| What is a digraph? | two letters representing one phoneme. |
| What is a homograph? | words which have the same spelling but different meanings. |
| What is a homophone? | words which have the same sound as another but different meaning or different spelling. |
| What is a noun? | a noun is a word which denotes somebody or something. |
| What is a phoneme? | the smallest unit of sound in a word. |
| What is a prefix? | A prefix is a fixed morpheme which can be added to the beginning of a word to change it's meaning. |