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1. What is a dictionary?
Your answer — A list of words and their meanings arranged alphabetically.
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Some dictionaries are illustrated, and some are about specialist subjects, but all have words and definitions in alphabetical order.
2. Roughly how many words are there in the English language?
Your answer — More than 250,000.
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Fortunately we don't use all of them regularly.
3. What is a foreign language dictionary?
Your answer — tells you which foreign word says the same thing as an English word.
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A foreign language dictionary is all about translation.
4. What is a thesaurus?
Your answer — tells you other words with similar meanings.
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A thesaurus can help make your writing more interesting.
5. If you looked up the word 'lovely' in a thesaurus what might it say?
Your answer — pretty, attractive, gorgeous, very nice, wonderful.
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A thesaurus tells you other words with similar meanings.
6. What is a specialist dictionary?
Your answer — contains words and their definitions about a particular subject.
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A specialist dictionary concentrates on a particular subject.
7. Why do some dictionaries contain pictures?
Your answer — to help show what words mean.
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Sometimes it helps to use a picture when defining what a word means.
8. Which of these is an advantage of electronic dictionaries?
Your answer — the definitions can include sounds and video.
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A computer can play sounds and movies - a book can't.
9. Which of these words would come first in a dictionary?
Your answer — eagle.
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The words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order. Because e comes before f or m in the alphabet, eagle will come first.
10. Which of these words would come last in a dictionary?
Your answer — balloon.
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The words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order. Because l comes after b in the alphabet, balloon will come last.
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