e.g. school principal 4 teacher, teacher 4 student(s), lieutenant 4 sergeant.
Sometimes people temporarily take on superior roles, either because of the
situation, e.g. bank manager 4 loan seeker, or because one of them has a
stronger personality, e.g. student A 4 student B.roll n
another term for trill
Roman alphabet n
also Latin alphabet
an alphabetic writing system used for many languages, including English. It
consists of letters which may represent different sounds or sound combina-
tions in different languages. For example, the letter wrepresents /w/ in
English as /cwÑptvr/ water but /v/ in German /cvasvr/ Wasser “water”.
see also alphabet
romance languages n
a group of languages which are derived from Latin. French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian are all romance languages. Their
common ancestry can still be seen in some of their words and structures,
for example:
French Italian Spanish English
père padre padre father
poisson pesce pescado fish
champ campo campo field
Romance languages are part of the wider indo-european language group.
root n
also base form
a morphemewhich is the basic part of a word and which may, in many
languages, occur on its own (e.g. English man, hold, cold, rhythm). Roots
may be joined to other roots (e.g. English house+hold 6 household) and/or
take affixes (e.g. manly, coldness) or combining forms (e.g. biorhythm).
see also stem^1
rote learning n
the learning of material by repeating it over and over again until it is
memorized, without paying attention to its meaning.
rounded vowel n
see vowel
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