| A | B |
|---|
| archaic | referring to words that were common once but now rarely used |
| argot | the informal vocabulary used by a particular class or group such as criminals |
| connotation | the mental connections or associations suggested by a word that go beyond the literal meaning |
| denotation | the exact meaning of a word |
| idiom | an expression having a special meaning that is not clear from the usual meaning of the individual words in the expression |
| jargon | the specialized technical vocabulary used by people in the same profession or field |
| semantics | the study of historical changes in the meaning of words |
| slang | highly informal language that occurs most often in casual conversation |
| standard | conforming to established usage in speech or writing |
| vernacular | the normal spoken language of a country or region as distinct from the literary or learned |
