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English 101 Vocab
List 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACRONYM | NOUN Word formed from initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words: WAC for Women's Army Corps. Acronyms are frequently used in official and political circles to shorten long titles of organizations or systems |
| AFFIX | NOUN A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root. To secure (an object) to another. The word reappearance has two affixes: re- and -ance. |
| COINAGE | NOUN The invention of new words. The process of making coins. The word hobbit was a coinage of J.R.R. Tolkien. |
| COLLOQUIAL | ADJECTIVE Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. Informal in style of expression. Connie suggested to Joe that he substitute "narrow escape" for his colloquial expression "a close call." |
| MALAPROPISM | NOUN The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended nut humorously wrong in the context. The word malapropism came from Mrs. Malaprop, a character who humorously misuses words in Richard Sheridan's eighteenth century play The Rivals. |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | NOUN The formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for. Onomatopoetic= Adjective. Buzz and hiss are examples of onomatopoeia that the poet used to make the meadow come alive. |
| PALINDROME | NOUN A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama" was the only palindrome that Richard could remember. |
| PORTMANTEAU WORD | COMPOUND NOUN A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, blend. Arlin didn't realize that the word slithy in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" is a portmanteau word formed from lithe and slimy. |
| SIMILE | NOUN A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as. Some similes, such as "hungry as a bear" and "sly like a fox," are considered to be overused. |
| SPOONERISM | NOUN Accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds:"the tons of soil" rather than "the sons of toil." Word spoonerism from William A. Spooner, an English clergyman who was noted for such verbal slips. |
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