100 Words Every 4th Grader Should Know

The parts of speech are the categories words fall into based on what role they play in the grammar of a sentence.

High above the ground: The first people to fly went aloft in balloons.

Loyalty to a country, a person, or a cause: The knights pledged allegiance to the prince.

An idea that occurs to a person after something else has been said or done: They invited us to the birthday party, and as an afterthought, they said that we shouldn’t bring a gift.

is a vowel that is used in unstressed syllables, as in the first syllable of ago and the second syllable of silent.

called the pronunciation, appears in parentheses after the entry word.

INTERJECTIONS, such as yippee and hey,

pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and interjections.

If a noun is usually used in plural form, it is labeled as a PLURAL NOUN.

Most nouns are usually singular but can be made plural (acrobats, sofas, and so on)