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| acronym | a word formed from initial letters of a mane or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words |
| affix | a) a word element, such as a prefix or a suffix that is attached to a base,stem or root. b) Something that is attached, joined or added. |
| coinage | a) the invention of new words b) sn invented word or phrase c) the process of making coins |
| colloquial | a) used in or suitable to spoken languageor to writing that imitates speech. b) Informal in style of expression. |
| malapropism | The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humoruously wrong in the context. |
| onomatopoeia | The formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for. |
| palindrome | A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same both backwards and foreward. |
| portmanteau word | A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings two different words;blend |
| simile | A figure of speech in which two essentially unrelated things are compared often in a phrase introduced by like or as. |
| spoonerism | an accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds. |
