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in words of one syllable

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in words of one syllable
if you explain something in words of one syllable, you do it in words that are very simple and easy to understand because the person you are speaking to is stupid
Usage notes: A syllable is a unit of sound that is made by a combination of letters. Words which only have one syllable are short and simple.
I was trying to explain to him again, in words of one syllable, why safety regulations must be obeyed at all times.
See also: one, word


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"Bill" was a sturdy fellow, aged four-and-twenty, an excellent stone-sawyer, who could get as good wages as any man in the trade of his years; but he found a reading lesson in words of one syllable a harder matter to deal with than the hardest stone he had ever had to saw.
 
 
 
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