Lesson 1

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acronym

Back 1

n. a word formed from the initial letters of a name or combining the intial letters or parts of a series of words

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affix

Back 2

n. 1.a word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to the stem, base, or root
2. something that is attached, joined or added
v. 1.to secure to another; attach
2. to place at the end

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coinage

Back 3

n. 1.the invention of new words
2. an invented word or phrase
3.the process of making coins

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colloquial

Back 4

adj. 1. used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational
2. informal in style or expression

colloquialism- n.
colloquially- adv

Front 5

malapropism

Back 5

n. the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context

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onomatopoeia

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n. the formation of use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for

onomatopoetic- adj

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palindrome

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n. a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward

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protmanteau word

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cp. a word fomred by mergin the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend

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simile

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n. a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phase introduced by like or as

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spoonerism

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n. an accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase fromed by interchanging the initial sounds