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acronym
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a word formed from the first letter of each word in a series
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affix
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to attach something
to attach a part to the beginning or end of a word |
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coinage
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the invention of new words
an invented word or phrase the making of metal coins; metal currency |
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colloquial
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typical of informal language usage, conversational
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diminutive
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a suffix that indicates small size, youth, familiarity, affection, or contempt
a nickname indicating affection or familiarity extremely small, tiny |
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metonymy
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a figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word
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oxymoron
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an expression that contains contradictory terms
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palindrome
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a word or an expression that is spelled the same backwards and forward
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portmanteau word
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a word formed by combining sounds and meaning of two different words
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spoonerism
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an often comical switching of the first sounds of two or more words
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