Lesson One Flashcards
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Affix
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A prefix or suffix
1
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Acronym*
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A word made from first letters
2
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Coinage*
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An invented word
3
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Colloquial*
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Conversational
4
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Diminutive
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A suffix indicating smallness
5
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Metonymy
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The use of a closely related word as a substitute
6
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Oxymoron*
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An expression with contradictory words
7
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Palindrome
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A word spelled the same backward and forward
8
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Portmanteau word
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A word formed from two other words
9
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Spoonerism
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A comical switching of the first sounds of words
