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Using A Dictionary - Exercises

This document provides a series of dictionary exercises to check definitions, pronunciations, parts of speech, related words, and labels. The exercises include finding the meanings of words, their pronunciations, parts of speech, related nouns and verbs, opposites, differences between words, phrases words often appear in, and silent letters. It also asks the reader to check if certain words have labels like "informal" in the dictionary. The goal is to learn how to effectively use a dictionary to look up various properties of words.

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Using A Dictionary - Exercises

This document provides a series of dictionary exercises to check definitions, pronunciations, parts of speech, related words, and labels. The exercises include finding the meanings of words, their pronunciations, parts of speech, related nouns and verbs, opposites, differences between words, phrases words often appear in, and silent letters. It also asks the reader to check if certain words have labels like "informal" in the dictionary. The goal is to learn how to effectively use a dictionary to look up various properties of words.

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Using a dictionary – exercises

1. Use a dictionary to find/check the answers to these questions.

a) What does dreadful mean?


b) How do you pronounce lose? (Is it the same as choose or chose?)
c) What part of speech is choose?
d) What part of speech is homesick?
e) Homework and chaos are both nouns, but what type of noun are they?
f) Write two adjectives that are often used before chaos.
g) How many syllables does chaos have?
h) How do you pronounce the ch in chaos? (Is it the same sound as in character or change?)
i) What two prepositions are often used after choose?
j) Write a sentence using choose with a preposition.

2. When you look up a word in your dictionary, you can also learn related words and phrases. Find
out if your dictionary helps you to answer these questions.

a) Choose is a verb, but what is the noun with the same meaning?
b) Advice is a noun, but what is the verb with the same meaning?
c) Advice is uncountable, but you can make it countable using another word. Can you complete the
sentence: “He gave me a very useful ___________________ of advice.”
d) What adjective is formed from chaos?
e) What is the opposite of dirty?
f) What is the difference between homework and housework?
g) What is the opposite of lose a game?
h) What is the opposite of lose weight?
i) Law often appears in the phrase law and _______________________.
j) If you want to invite someone to sit down in an empty seat, what can you say?

3. In the word island /ˈɑɪ·lənd/, the letter s is silent [not pronounced]. Use the pronunciation guide
in your dictionary to find the silent letters in each of these words. (Do not include the letter e at
the end of a word.)

island bomb psychology receipt


castle doubt wrist knife

4. Do these words or phrases have labels in your dictionary?

Example: grungy – informal

bye-bye thereby childish


incision put someone down

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