Vocabulary Words | Meanings |
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numb | not able to feel, as when your fingers are numb with cold |
number | a word which says how many. One (1), two (2) are numbers. |
numeral | a figure, a number such as 1,2 or 3 |
numerous | very many |
nun | a female member of religious group living in a convent |
nurse | someone who helps the doctor to look after people who are ill |
nursery | a room or building where very young children sleep or play |
nurture | up bringing, education, nourishment, to educate, nourish, train up |
nut | a fruit or seed with a hard shell. The same word also means a piece of metal with a hole through it that you screw on to the end of a bolt |
nylon | a man-made material used for making clothing, brushes and other useful things |
Stressed and Unstressed
In English sentences content words are stressed while structural words are generally not.