urchin
/ˈɜːtʃɪn/noun
Middle School
1
A mischievous child.
2
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
3
A sea urchin.
4
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
5
A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
6
A hedgehog.
7
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
Sound Patterns & Rhymes
Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing
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