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| almost |
If you are almost ready, you are very close to being ready but you are not ready yet. Maybe you just have to put your shoes on. If there were twelve cookies and your brother ate almost all of them, then maybe there are only one or two cookies left. |
| antecedent |
the word or group of words that a pronoun refers to. In "The girls ate their dessert first," "girls" is the antecedent of "their." |
| ate |
"Ate" is the past tense of "eat." When we talk about someone eating in the past, we use the word "ate." |
| brontosaur |
a huge dinosaur that only ate plants. Brontosaurs had heavy bodies and very long necks and tails. They lived over 100 million years ago. Brontosaurs are now called apatosaurs by scientists who study dinosaurs. |
| few |
Few is a small number of people or things. If many guests came to a party but few ate the fruit salad, it means that only a small number of people ate the fruit salad. [1/2 definitions] |
| left2 |
When something is left, it has not been taken away. It is still where it was before. If there were three donuts in a bag and your brother ate two, there is only one left for you. |
| lotus |
a plant in an ancient Greek legend. It was believed that those who ate the fruit of this plant happily forgot their troubles. [1/2 definitions] |
| nonsense |
Nonsense is something you say or do that is silly or has no meaning that anyone can understand. A sentence like "A banana ate my brother's pajamas" is nonsense. Sometimes we use nonsense for fun. [1/2 definitions] |
| nothing |
When there is nothing, there is not one thing. If your closet has nothing in it, then the closet is empty. If you ate nothing for breakfast, then you had no food in the morning. If your mom bought nothing at the store, then she did not buy anything. [1/3 definitions] |
| twice |
"Twice" also means two times as much. If you usually eat one bowl of cereal for breakfast but today you ate two bowls, then today you ate twice the cereal you usually eat. [1/2 definitions] |
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