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Ms. Duffy's vocab words
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English
6th Grade
11/13/2011

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autobiography
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a writing about a person's life written by that person
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autograph
Definition
self writing--writing one's own name
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biography
Definition
a book written about a person's life by any other person
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homograph
Definition
a word written the same way as another, but having a different pronunciation and meaning - like hair bow and the bow of a ship
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seismograph
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a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth
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photography
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the use of light to write/record an image on film using a camera
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paragraph
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a section of writing that has a topic and concluding sentence
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bibliography
Definition
the written list of all the books, etc. used ina report or book
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