Lesson One Flashcards by claire smith

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Affix

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A prefix or suffix

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Acronym*

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A word made from first letters

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Coinage*

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An invented word

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Colloquial*

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Conversational

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Diminutive

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A suffix indicating smallness

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Metonymy

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The use of a closely related word as a substitute

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Oxymoron*

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An expression with contradictory words

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Palindrome

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A word spelled the same backward and forward

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Portmanteau word

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A word formed from two other words

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Spoonerism

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A comical switching of the first sounds of words

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