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1. What is a dictionary?

a list of words with pictures showing what the words mean

a list of words and their meanings arranged in order of size

a list of words and their meanings arranged alphabetically

2. Roughly how many words are there in the English language?

about 10,000

more than 250,000

about 1000

3. What is a foreign language dictionary?

tells you what English words mean

tells you which foreign word says the same thing as an English word

teaches you how to speak a foreign language

4. What is a thesaurus?

tells you other words with similar meanings

a huge, meat-eating dinosaur

a list of words and their meanings arranged alphabetically

5. If you looked up the word 'lovely' in a thesaurus what might it say?

adjective, very beautiful

horrible, rotten, nasty, ugly

pretty, attractive, gorgeous, very nice, wonderful

6. What is a specialist dictionary?

tells you what different specialists do

contains words only to do with science or history

contains words and their definitions about a particular subject

7. Why do some dictionaries contain pictures?

to help show what words mean

so you don't have to read so much

to make the dictionary look nicer

8. Which of these is an advantage of electronic dictionaries?

the definitions are more likely to be right

the definitions can include sounds and video

the definitions will be longer

9. Which of these words would come first in a dictionary?

mountain

frozen

eagle

10. Which of these words would come last in a dictionary?

baboon

balloon

baby

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