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strong verb

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  1. 2. Hung loosely, or hurled insults
  2. 3. Sketched a portrait or pulled a card
  3. 7. Uttered words, or a wheel's radial support
  4. 8. Flourish or grow vigorously under good conditions
  5. 11. Navigated the deep end in the past
  6. 12. Possessed the information, though it sounds like brand new
  7. 13. Commit oneself to a task, or promise to do something
  8. 16. Failed to remember, or left the keys behind
  9. 17. Leaped forward, or tied up with ropes
  10. 20. Make great efforts, or struggle vigorously toward a goal
  11. 21. Departed for a destination, or matched well with a tie
  12. 22. Threw with force, or engaged in a brief affair

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  1. 1. Experience or endure, as a difficult process or surgery
  2. 2. Cowered in fear, or ruined a wool sweater in the wash
  3. 4. Offer strong resistance, or endure a harsh storm
  4. 5. Abandon or give up entirely, like a habit or a friend
  5. 6. Prohibit authoritatively, or refuse to allow
  6. 9. Moved back and forth, or took a wild guess
  7. 10. Renounced under oath, or rejected a previous claim
  8. 14. Absolved of a debt, or stopped feeling resentment
  9. 15. Felt a sharp pain, or got conned by a clever swindle
  10. 17. Commenced an action, or took the first step
  11. 18. Imbibed a liquid, or absorbed information eagerly
  12. 19. Projected saliva or rotated a roast
  13. 20. Glided smoothly, perhaps into home base

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strong verb

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  1. 3. To break something into many pieces with a heavy blow
  2. 4. To jump a great distance

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  1. 1. To exert force on something to move it away
  2. 2. To pursue someone or something in order to catch them

strong verb

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  1. 1. Moved smoothly along a slippery surface
  2. 3. Disappear suddenly and completely
  3. 7. Hit someone or something very hard
  4. 8. Become smaller in size
  5. 10. Exert force to move something away from oneself
  6. 12. Run away rapidly from danger
  7. 13. Pull down or destroy a building completely
  8. 16. Clean a floor using a broom
  9. 18. Spring forward or upward with a single bound
  10. 19. Compress with destructive force
  11. 22. Make a loud, sharp cry of fear or pain
  12. 23. Firmly press from opposite sides
  13. 24. Hold on tightly to someone or something

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  1. 1. Bounce back or leap suddenly
  2. 2. Throw lightly or casually
  3. 4. Make great efforts to achieve something
  4. 5. Grow or develop in a healthy, vigorous way
  5. 6. Reduce to small particles by rubbing
  6. 9. Push suddenly or violently
  7. 11. Fall down or cave in suddenly
  8. 14. Burst outward violently with a loud noise
  9. 15. Pull apart by force
  10. 17. Beat repeatedly with the fists
  11. 20. Hold tightly with your hand
  12. 21. Pull along the ground with effort

Punctuation

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  1. 1. A mark longer than a hyphen, used to show a break or emphasis
  2. 4. Type of sentence made of an independent clause and a dependent clause
  3. 6. A mark used to connect two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction
  4. 11. Type of clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence
  5. 13. A group of words containing a subject and a verb
  6. 14. Slanted text style used to set off titles of books or movies

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  1. 2. A short mark used to join compound words or split a word between lines
  2. 3. Type of sentence made of two independent clauses joined together
  3. 5. Describes a noun form that shows ownership, often using an apostrophe and s
  4. 7. A shortened form of two words combined with an apostrophe, like don't
  5. 8. A square mark used to add an editor's note inside a quotation
  6. 9. A reference that credits the source of a quote or idea
  7. 10. Type of clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence
  8. 12. Three dots used to show that words have been left out of a quotation

Punctuation

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  1. 1. The punctuation mark used to show a short pause in a sentence
  2. 4. The curved marks used to add extra information to a sentence
  3. 9. A sentence that shows strong feeling, ending with a mark like this: !
  4. 10. The name of a book or story, sometimes shown in italics or quotes
  5. 11. The punctuation mark made of two dots used before a list

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  1. 2. A general word for a punctuation symbol
  2. 3. A series of items often separated by commas
  3. 5. The punctuation mark that joins two related complete sentences
  4. 6. The punctuation mark that ends a statement sentence
  5. 7. The type of letter used at the start of a sentence or a name
  6. 8. What a comma tells the reader to briefly do

Parts of Speech

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  1. 1. A group of related words that does not contain a subject and verb together
  2. 3. A small word like a, an, or the that introduces a noun
  3. 7. A word class that includes people, places, things, and ideas
  4. 9. A word like under, over, or between that shows relationship or position
  5. 11. A word class that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun
  6. 12. A word or phrase that adds detail or description to another word
  7. 13. A word that substitutes for a noun already mentioned
  8. 14. The form of a verb that shows when an action happens

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  1. 1. A verb form used as an adjective or to build verb tenses
  2. 2. A verb form ending in ing that acts as a noun
  3. 4. A word like and, but, or or that joins words or clauses
  4. 5. A word or phrase that expresses strong emotion, like wow or ouch
  5. 6. A group of words containing a subject and a verb
  6. 8. The noun that a pronoun refers back to
  7. 10. A word class that expresses action or a state of being

Parts of Speech

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  1. 1. A type of noun a name like teacher or friend can describe
  2. 3. A single unit of language with meaning
  3. 4. A word that names a person, place, or thing
  4. 5. Describes a noun that names only one, like cat
  5. 7. A type of noun that names a location, like a park or city
  6. 8. A type of noun that names an object, like a chair or book
  7. 9. A word that shows an action or state of being
  8. 10. What a proper noun gives to a specific person or place

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  1. 1. A word like he, she, or it that takes the place of a noun
  2. 2. The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is
  3. 6. What a verb usually shows a person or thing doing

Grammar

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  1. 2. Not the time of the action, but its completion status
  2. 5. A professional substitute for a name
  3. 7. A verbal that acts like a descriptor
  4. 11. Mood for a dreamer's hypothetical world
  5. 13. The case for the one receiving the gift
  6. 14. A double meaning that leaves the reader guessing
  7. 16. The painter's tool of the sentence

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  1. 1. A linguistic bridge that links state to being
  2. 3. The price you pay for ordering words incorrectly
  3. 4. A short bridge for two words to cross
  4. 6. Starting every sentence with the same words again
  5. 8. An action that passes through to an object
  6. 9. The mood for those who deal only in facts
  7. 10. The possessive case for origin or belonging
  8. 12. The entire inventory of a speaker's mind
  9. 15. Expressing possibility, necessity, or permission

Grammar

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  1. 1. Three dots indicating a trail of thought or an omission
  2. 5. The temporal flow of an action, such as perfective or progressive
  3. 7. A word like and or but that acts as a linguistic bridge
  4. 9. Nominative, accusative, or genitive, for example
  5. 10. A grammatical category that tells us when an action happened

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  1. 2. A curved mark used to tuck away an extra thought
  2. 3. A descriptive tool used to spice up a dull noun
  3. 4. The base form of a verb often preceded by to
  4. 6. The set of rules governing word order
  5. 8. The entity targeted by the action of a verb

Grammar

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  1. 5. The part of a sentence that performs the action
  2. 6. Symbol used at the end of a sentence

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  1. 1. The time of a verb's action
  2. 2. A word that expresses an action
  3. 3. Tense used for things that already happened
  4. 4. Letters added to the beginning of a word
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