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scare to frighten especially suddenly alarm The first known use: in the 13th century |
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5 Letters, 1 Syllable |
scare |
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4 Phonemes |
s k e r |
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onset, rime |
sc are |
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Morpheme |
scare |
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Sentence Examples Stop that, you're scaring the children. There have been scares about the water supply being contaminated. |
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Related Words Sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Collocations The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
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Neighborhood
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False Friends
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