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| Acronym | a word formed from the first letter of each word in a series |
| Affix | a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root |
| Coinage | the invention of new words |
| Colloquial | informal, conversational language |
| Palindrome | a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward and forward |
| Portmanteau word | a word formed by merging the sounds and meaning of two different words |
| Spoonerism | an accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds |
| malapropisn | a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context |
| onomataopoeia | made up word that imitates or resembles what it stands for |
| simile | where two unlikely things are compared using like or as |
