Dictionary Day

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Across
  1. 2. The way letters are arranged in a word; “i before e” comes to mind!
  2. 5. Someone who loves reading and learning new words.
  3. 8. Someone who loves playing with words; like a writer or poet.
  4. 9. A word lover’s friend; gives synonyms and antonyms.
  5. 12. What grows each time you look something up!
  6. 14. What we speak, write, and use to communicate.
  7. 15. Where you find words in a book; you turn one to learn more.
  8. 16. The building blocks of language; you look these up!
  9. 17. A book that tells you what words mean and how to spell them.
  10. 19. All the words a person knows or uses.
  11. 20. A word that means the opposite of another.
Down
  1. 1. Each separate word and its definition in a dictionary.
  2. 3. How a word sounds when you say it out loud.
  3. 4. A single symbol of the alphabet; 26 in English!
  4. 6. The study of where words come from; their “family tree.”
  5. 7. The meaning of a word; found after the bold term.
  6. 10. A word that means the same or nearly the same as another.
  7. 11. Another word for vocabulary or word list.
  8. 13. The rules of language; helps sentences make sense.
  9. 18. The letters we use to make words; starts with A and ends with Z.