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Jordan
January 14, 2008
More Useful words in English
Here are some more words that you'll come across in Englishlessons.
Using the chart as a guide, try to memorize all
of them.
Have you looked back at mem1 and mem2 recently?
WORD | SYLLABLES | DIFFICULT BITS |
metaphor | met-a-phor | -ph- |
myth | myth | -y- (not -i-) |
narrator | nar-rat-or | |
onomatopoeia | on-o-mat-o-poei-a | that last but one syllable is a real pain isn't it? |
pamphlet | pam-phlet | -phlet |
personification | per-son-if-ic-a-tion | easy when you break it up into syllables |
preposition | pre-pos-i-tion | |
playwright | play-wright | don't forget the -w- |
resolution | re-sol-u-tion | |
rhyme | rhyme | I often get this one wrong: (I forget the -h-) |
scene | scene | sc- (like science) |
simile | sim-i-le | -le |
soliloquy | sol-il-o-quy | -quy |
synonym | sy-no-nym | sy- and -nym |
tabloid | tab-loid | -loid (noise, voice etc) |
vocabulary | vo-cab-u-lary | pronounce it clearly |
vowel | vow-el | don't forget -e- |
More entries: TOM CRUISE, The European Union, ELECTION DAY, Harry Potter, Uncle Sam, Spelling, mem 2 LOOK - THINK - COVER - WRITE - CHECK, mem1 Remembering how to spell new words , More Useful words in English, 7.1. Sentence Stress Basics