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colloquial
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1. characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
2. involving or using conversation. |
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Agglomeration
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–noun
1. a jumbled cluster or mass of varied parts. |
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Lexicon
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-noun
a word book describing language with definitions; dictionary the vocabulary of a person, group, subject, or language; also, the total morphemes of a language |
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morpheme
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A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts.
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phonetics
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1. the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. Compare acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics, physiological phonetics. 2. the phonetic system or the body of phonetic facts of a particular language. 3. the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language. |
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anemic
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weak
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