NWEA Vocabulary 161-170 Set C
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Compound Word | A word composed of two or more smaller words (ex - doorknob) |
| Contraction | A contraction is a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of a word example: can not - can't |
| Fairy Tale | A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids or gnomes. |
| Folk Tale | Retellings of American folktales and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, and ghost stories |
| Main Idea | The main idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph |
| Setting | setting includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place. |
| Vowel | a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English: A E I O U and sometimes Y |
| Word Family | A group of words that share a common base, to which different prefixes and suffixes are added. |
| Syllable | A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. |
| Table of Contents | A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents" and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear. |
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