magical world of words: understanding how words “work” using words from C.A.E. Discovery Club books.
- Word list
- Weird World of Words
- Fun & Weird Words (coming soon)
| Anagrams | a word or phrase made out of another by changing the order of the letters |
| Antonym | a word of opposite meaning |
| Capitonym | word that changes its meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) when it is capitalized |
| Compound Words | that consists of more than one stem two or more words together to make them one word.The meanings of the words interrelate in such a way that a new meaning comes out which is very different from the meanings of the words in isolation. |
| Contractions | the shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of internal letters |
| Heteronym | One of two or more words that have identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations, such as row (a series of objects arranged in a line), pronounced (r), and row (a fight), pronounced (rou). |
| Homonym | one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning |
| Onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds (as “buzz” or “hiss”) |
| Oxymorons | a combination of contradictory words (as cruel kindness) |
| Palindrome words | Palindrome words: a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward |
| Pangrams | A sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet |
| Prefixes | a letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning of a word and has a meaning of its own |
| rhyme words | close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of verse. One of two or more words having this similarity in sound |
| Suffixes | a letter or group of letters that comes at the end of a word and has a meaning of its own |
| Synonym | a word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word in the same language |
| Tautonym | any word or term made from two identical parts, bonbon, tutu |
| Tongue Twisters | a word, phrase, or sentence difficult to say because of a succession of similar consonant sounds |
***Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary**
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