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acronym
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a word formed from the first letters of words in a sequence
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affix
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to attach a part to the beginning or end of a word
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coinage
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a newly invented word or phrase
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colloquial
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conversational language
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diminutive
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a suffix denoting smallness, youth, familiarity, affection or comtempt
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metonymy
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a subtotution of one word for another closlu related word
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oxymoron
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self contadictive expression
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palindrome
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word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards
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portmanteau word
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word made by combining parts of two other words
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spoonerism
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switching first letters of two words
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