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- See:
- sound
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to make an effort to read and pronounce a word by saying the sound of each of its letters or its letter combinations.
Some words in English are easy to sound out, like "spend" and "cliff," but other words are difficult, if not impossible.The boy's reading teacher told him not to skip the word but to try and sound it out. |
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