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Linguistic and grammatical words.

Subcategories: Abstract Nouns (9), Adjectives (842), Adverbs (29), Conjunctions (33), Interjections (10), Past tense (209), Plural (47), Prepositions (56), Pronouns (65), Punctuation (9), Verbs (743)

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T is for Tow

You tow something when you pull it behind you. When people talk about towing, they usually mean something attached behind a vehicle like a car. When people go camping, they often tow a caravan or trailer.

T is for Toward

You go toward something when you move in its direction, so you get closer to it. The dog in the picture is coming towards the person who took a photo of it.

T is for Toxic

Toxic is another word for poisonous. If something is toxic, it is hazardous to your health or to the environment.

T is for Translucent

Something is translucent if some light can get through it, but you can't see through it clearly. Frosted windows are translucent, lower quality gemstones like quartz are often translucent, and many things that are very thin are translucent.
The leaves in the picture are translucent. Where they overlap, they are opaque.

T is for Transparent

Something is transparent if you can see through it. Glass in windows is transparent. The lenses of sunglasses are transparent.
If you can see through something but it changes the color of everything you see, that something is still transparent but it is tinted. Filter lenses for cameras are often tinted.
The glasswing butterfly in the picture has transparent wings.
The opposite of transparent is opaque. Something that lets light through but you can't easily see through it is translucent.

T is for Trapped

You are trapped when you are stuck in a place you cannot get out of. The cat in the picture is caught in a trap.

T is for Travel

You travel when you move from one place to another. You can travel in any way, by walking, riding a bike or by driving a car like you see in the picture.

T is for Tread

You tread when you put your foot down onto something, usually while you are walking.
Tread might refer to other things like the pattern on a tyre or the bottom of your shoe.

T is for Trek

To trek is to travel somewhere, but slowly and with difficulty. The man in the picture is trekking through some mountains.

T is for Trickle

A trickle is a thin stream of water. A trickle is slightly more than a drip but much less than a full stream of water. The waterfall in the picture is only trickling because there hasn't been much rain.
A trickle is often used to describe a small amount of something passing by, as in "he was earning a trickle of money from his second job".

T is for Trim (Cut)

To tidy up or remove the excess from something, particularly around the edges, for example trimming a hedge.

T is for Trod

Trod is the past tense of tread, for example "he trod in some dog poo".

T is for Trot

A trot is a gait of a horse where its legs move in opposite pairs. A trot is faster than a walk but slower than a canter or gallop. Other animals and people that run in a similar way to the way a horse trots are also said to be trotting.

T is for Tuck

You tuck something in when you either put it into a small place, for example "I tucked the ticket into my pocket" or by putting the loose ends of something away, for example "he tucked his shirt in".
The man in the picture is tucking his wife into bed because she is sick.

T is for Tucked

Tucked is the past tense of tuck. The sheets on the bed in the picture are tucked in, and have all the loose ends nicely hidden away.

T is for Tug

When you tug on something, you pull very hard to move it.

T is for Turkish

Turkish describes anything relating to the country of Turkey, or the language spoken in Turkey.

T is for Turn

You turn when you change direction. The boat in the picture is turning right.

T is for Turned

Turned is the past tense of turn.

T is for Twiddle

You twiddle with something by fiddling with it and turning it around.

It most often refers to you twiddling your fingers.