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| apostrophe1 |
An apostrophe is a little mark that you see in certain words like "can't" and "I'm." It goes between letters to show that something is missing there. A word like "can't" is a short way of writing and saying "cannot." Using the apostrophe shows that the meaning is the same as "cannot" but that letters are missing and the sound is different. [1/3 definitions] |
| blank |
a place or space where something is left out or missing. [1/6 definitions] |
| casualty |
a person in the armed forces who is killed, wounded, or missing in action. [1/2 definitions] |
| contract |
When you contract a word, you make it shorter by taking away some of its letters. For example, we often contract the word "cannot" to "can't." When we take away a letter or letters, we put in an apostrophe (') to show that something is missing in that spot. It is even more common to take two words and contract them into one word. For example, we often contract "is not" to "isn't." [1/4 definitions] |
| contraction |
When we say things like "don't" or "I'm" or "can't," we are using what we call contractions. Contractions let us put two words together so we can say or write them in a shorter way. "Don't" is a contraction of the two words "do" and "not." "I'm" is a contraction of the words "I" and "am." The little mark between the two words in a contraction is called an apostrophe. That mark tell us that something is missing. For example, in the contraction "I'm," the letter "a" of the word "am" is missing. |
| despite |
If you go to school despite feeling sick, you go to school even though you feel sick. You go anyway. If a team plays a big game despite missing its best player, the team plays even though the best player cannot play. It's a bad thing, but the team plays anyway. If you like someone despite the fact that they don't like you, you still like them even though they don't feel the same about you. |
| fill out |
to complete by giving missing information. |
| in spite of |
If you go to school in spite of feeling sick, you go to school even though you feel sick. You go anyway. If a team plays a big game in spite of missing its best player, the team plays even though the best player cannot play. If you like someone in spite of the fact that they don't like you, you still like them even though they don't feel the same about you. |
| MIA |
abbreviation of "missing in action," used to describe members of the armed forces who became missing during a war. |
| minus |
missing or without. [1/5 definitions] |
| missing |
When something is missing, it is not where it usually is, or it is not where it is supposed to be. If your chair has two missing legs, you can't sit on your chair! You will fall down. [2 definitions] |
| one |
When one of your special pencils is missing, it means that a pencil that is part of your group of special pencils is missing. Which pencil it is of that group is not important at the moment. [1/6 definitions] |
| without |
with something missing or lacking. [1/3 definitions] |
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