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28 Cards in this Set
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abstract |
not concrete; something that cannot be experienced through the five senses
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analytic language
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a language that uses word order to express grammatical relationships
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Anglicize |
to make a borrowed word resemble English in pronunciation, spelling, or form
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amelioration
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improvement in the meaning or status of a word; compare pejoration
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cognate
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word that comes from the same root as another with the same meaning, as German wasser and English water.
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cohesion
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the act of sticking or holding firmly together
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complex
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complicated; not simple
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conjugation
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inflection of verbs; a class of verbs inflected in the same manner
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connectives
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words that link or join together
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connotations
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the suggestions or implications associated with a word in addition to its literal meanings
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continuity
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the state or quality of being unbroken, uninterrupted
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declension
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the inflection of nouns; a class of nouns inflected in the same manner
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dialect
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a variety of speech peculiar to a particular region or social group (social dialect)
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etymology
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the history of a word traced through changes in meaning and form to the earliest known form of the word
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generalization
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word meaning changing from specific to general or extending to include a related concept
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guttural
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pronounced in the throat
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inflection
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a word part used to indicate tense, mood, gender, case, and number; the pattern of change expressed through inflected endings; see conjugation; declension.
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morpheme
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the smallest unit of semantic or grammatical meaning, including words, bases, affixes, and inflections
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morphology
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the relationship of word parts to one another; compare syntax
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orthography
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a system of spelling
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pejoration
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a meaning change in which a word is downgraded in meaning or status; compare amelioration
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phonetic
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one letter or symbol corresponding to one sound
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semantic meaning
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the denotative and connotative meaning(s) of a word; that which the word symbolizes
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specialization
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a meaning change from general to specific or broad to narrow; compare generalization
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syntax
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the aspect of grammar dealing with word order and word relationships; compare morphology
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synthetic language
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a language that uses inflections to communicate grammatical relationships
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transition
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that which makes a smooth passage from one place
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verbal
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a word or phrase formed from a verb and acting as a noun or adjective; a participle, infinitive, or gerund
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