Thursday, September 13, 2007

santino's vocab

















Cognate (Adjective)
Descripton: Beeing born of the same family

Rlated Words: Affiliated (synonym), Akin (synonym), Unlike (Antonym)

Sentence: My sister and I were born of the same fanily therefore we are family.

Derivative (Adjective)
Description: Not original
Related words: New (antonym) Original (antonym) unborrowed (antonym)

Sentence: Most peoples ideas are derived from other peoples ideas.


Diminutive (noun or adjective)
Description: something small
Related words: Tiny (synonym) Acute (synonym) miny (synonym)

Sentence: The ant was more diminutive than the beetle.






Inlfection (noun)
Description: changing your voice

Related words: change (synonym) pitch (synonym) variation (synonym)

Sentence: Mariah Carey is very talented for beeing able to use inflection in her music.





Orthography (noun)

Description: writing with correct word and letters.

Related words: penmanship (synonym) words (synonym) letters (synonym)

sentence: The russians have their own ortograohy for how they write.























































































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