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More Useful words in EnglishHere are some more words that
you'll come across in English
lessons.
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 |
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| 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 |
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| playwright |
play-wright |
don't forget the -w- |
| resolution |
re-sol-u-tion |
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| 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- |
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