Thursday, September 13, 2007

Marc's Vocab

· Cognate
1. When two or more things are similar or related.
2. Adjective
3. associated-synonym, unaffiliated-antonym, congruent- synonym
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5. Those two girls are cognate in every way, they are like twins.


· Derivative
1. Something that grows from a particular source, or branches off from another version.
2. Noun/Adjective
3. adapt, descendant, acquire-synonyms
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5. Cognate is a derivative of the Latin cognatus.

· diminutive
1. A way of describing something as small and weak, or not important.
2. Adjective
3. diminished-etymology, irrelevant-synonym, small- synonym
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5. The diminutive little ants had no reason for living.


· Inflection
1. A bend or change. Often used to describe a persons tone of voice.
2. Noun
3. curve-synonym, inflict-etymology, pitch-related
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5. The inflection of my teacher’s voice told me that he was not very happy.


· Orthography
1. Using letters to make words or spelling.
2. Noun
3. phonics-synonym, alphabet-related, language-related
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5. Orthography was spelled wrong on my spelling test.

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