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Latin America Latin America is a large region of the world that includes all the countries of South America and Central America. It is called Latin America because all the main languages spoken there--Spanish, Portuguese, and French--developed from an ancient language called Latin. Latin was the language spoken in Italy and the Roman Empire around 2000 years ago.
prefix a word part with its own meaning that is added to the beginning of a word to make a new word that has a different meaning. "Re-" in "reform" is a prefix.
reread When you re-read something, you read it again.
root1 the part of a word to which other word parts, such as suffixes and prefixes, can be added--or a free-standing word with no other word parts. The word "heat" is a free-standing word that also functions as a root. When you combine this root with the prefix "pre-," for example, you get a new word, "preheat," that means to heat up in advance. [1/9 definitions]
yellow pages A "yellow pages" is a book or part of a book that is made up of lists of a businesses along with their addresses and telephone numbers. The pages are, of course, yellow. The businesses are grouped together according to what type of business they are--for example, restaurants, grocery stores, law offices, or insurance companies. Nowadays, people can find a digital form of yellow pages online.