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Word Wisdom Unit 5 part 3

AB
Misnomeran incorrect or ill-fitting name
Satirea type of humor that attacks or makes fun of human faults or foolishness
Satirea work of literature that uses humor to attack or make fun of human faults or foolishness
Personifyto show or regard something as having qualities of a living being
Personifyto be a perfect example of something
Syntaxthe way words are put together to make phrases and sentences
Hyperbolean exaggeration
Deriveto come from a source; to originate
Deriveto get or obtain from a source
Contextthe part of a sentence that surrounds a word and helps to make its meaning clear
Clichéan overused expression
Metaphora figure of speech in which a word or object is compared with another to show the similarity
Oxymoronan expression combining words that contradict each other



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