the dictionary

Ca-boothnoun. The small, four-sided room in which one visits animals at a pet store or animal shelter. Caboose + Booth.

Clerk-u-ler: noun. The worker who one pays when finishing one’s shopping. Clerk + Customer.

Com-par-i-ment: noun. The act of assessing two things side by side to determine significant similarities and/or differences. Comparison + Experiment.

Down-er-case: adjective. In bicameral scripts, a small letter. Syn. lowercase, miniscule. Ant. uppercase,majuscule, capital.

Had-ed: auxiliary verb. To require (past tense). Ex. I haded to eat my dinner. Syn. had. Because everyone knows you add an -ed to make a verb past tense.

Hy-dro-nat-ed: adjective. The state of having adequate water in an object. Not to be confused with hydrogenated.

Neat-o-er: adjective. Comparison of neato, with neato-est as superlative. Of superior neato-ness. More neato. Syn. niftier. Ant. boringer.

O-ver-rupt: verb. To cover or stop a thing by overpowering its sound. Overpower + Interrupt

O-ver-tast-ing: adjective. That which overpowers or overcomes, particularly with regard to the olfactory sense.

Pred-at: noun. A creature that is hunted for food. Syn.prey.

Rip-en-er: adj. Mature, as in produce. Comparative of ripe.

Snuv: noun. Insect larva. Syn. Grub. Ant. Anything on earth deserving of mercy.

Son-shine: noun. The male offspring of a parent. A male person adopted as a son.

Two-ith: adjective. Immediately following the first. An ordinal number for two. Syn. second.

Un-rase: verb. To make new by clearing existing marks. Undo + Erase

Well-ly: adverb. To do something with a high degree of quality. Because even a toddler knows that adverbs end in -ly.

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