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| acronym | a word formed from the first letter of each word in a series |
| affix | a prefix, or suffix, something attached |
| coinage | invention of new words |
| colloquial | informal conversational language |
| palindrome | a word or phrase that is the same forwards or backwards |
| portmanteau word | word formed by merging two different words |
| simile | figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as |
| spoonerism | accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase by interchanging the initial sounds |
| malaproism | using wrong word that sounds like the one meant to use |
| onomatopoeia | word that imitates what it stands for |
