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10 Cards in this Set
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Acronym |
A word formed form the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words |
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Affix |
A word element such as a prefix or suffix that is attached to a base stem or root |
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Coinage |
The invention of new words. |
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Colloquial |
Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech |
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Malapropism |
The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context |
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Onomatopoeia |
The formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for |
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Palindrome |
A word phrase or sentence that reads the same backward or forward |
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Portmanteau word |
A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words |
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Simile |
A figure of speech in which two Essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as |
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Spoonerism |
An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds |
