Reference Works - Middle School

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  1. almanac
    an annual publication arranged according to the calendar
  2. alphabetical
    arranged in order according to the alphabet
  3. appendix
    supplementary material collected at the back of a book
  4. article
    nonfictional prose forming a part of a publication
  5. atlas
    a collection of maps in book form
  6. bibliography
    a list of writings with time and place of publication
  7. catalogue
    a complete list of things, usually arranged systematically
  8. database
    an organized body of related information
  9. definition
    a brief explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase
  10. dictionary
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  11. directory
    an alphabetical list of names and contact information
  12. encyclopedia
    a reference work containing articles on various topics
  13. entry
    an item inserted in a written record
  14. entry word
    the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
  15. etymology
    a history of a word
  16. glossary
    an alphabetical list of technical terms in a field
  17. guide word
    a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page
  18. index
    alphabetical listing of names and topics with page numbers
  19. journal
    a periodical dedicated to a particular subject
  20. library catalogue
    an enumeration of all the resources of a library
  21. periodical
    a publication that appears at fixed intervals
  22. pronunciation
    the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
  23. reference
    a book from which you can seek authoritative facts
  24. search engine
    a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
  25. syllabication
    forming or dividing words into syllables
  26. syllable
    a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
  27. table of contents
    a list of what is included and where it can be found
  28. thesaurus
    a book containing a classified list of synonyms
Created on Wed Jan 11 15:40:15 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:38:14 EDT 2017)

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