Dictionary Practice

What part of speech is the word gentle?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

What does the second definition say?

• adjective

• Not aware of something

• (ig-nur-uhnt)

• Not educated, or not knowing about many things.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What does the 1st definition say?

• A way of doing something.

• Mode

• noun

• In mathematics, the most frequent number in a set of numbers.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What can you learn from this dictionary definition?

• What the word pest means

• What part of speech pest is

• how to pronounce the word pest

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What reference material does this definition come from?

• encyclopedia

• atlas

• dictionary

• thesaurus

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1B

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

Read the sentence:

The math teacher told us to find the mode of the group of number.

Which definition for mode is used in the sentence above?

• 1

• 2

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What does the 5th definition for settle say?

• verb

• to sink

• To make yourself comfortable

• To calm

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What part of speech is the word happy?

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Select all of the parts of the entry that tell you the word's part of speech.