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Weighty words, too

by Levitt, Paul M.
Additional authors: Guralnick, Elissa S. | Burger, Douglas A. | Karcz, Katherine, -- illustrator.
Series: Weighty Words Part Two Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque ) Physical details: 92 pages color illustrations ; Hardback 24 cm ISBN:9780826345585; 0826345581.
Subject(s): Children's stories, American. | Short stories. | Vocabulary. | Puns and punning. | Mnemonics. | Fiction | Short stories.
Year: 2009
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Juvenile Fiction jLev (Browse shelf) Available 116542

Aggrandizement -- Burdensome -- Criterion -- Destination -- Exonerate -- Furbelow -- Geniality -- Hibernate -- Improbable -- Jeremiad -- Katzenjammer -- Lackadaisical -- Mystify -- Nadir -- Optimum -- Partisan -- Querist -- Rusticate -- Surreptitious -- Tirade -- Utilize -- Vicarious -- Wondrous -- Xerophyte -- Yokefellow -- Zany.

Provides definitions for twenty-six vocabulary words from "aggrandizement" to "zany" with stories containing puns that provide mnemonic devices for remembering the definitions.

Ages 9 and up.

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