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L.A. vocab1
aspects of language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| archaic | ancient, no longer used/ applicable |
| argot | the informal, specialized vocab or expressions of a particular group |
| connotation | ideas/meanings suggested from a word, associations beyond literal meaning conote, connotative |
| denotation | most direct/ specific meaning of a word denote, dennotative |
| idiom | expression w/ special meaning that can't be understood from meanings of the individual words, nonliteral expression idiomatic |
| jargon | specialized vocab of a profession/trade, nonsensical/meaningless communication |
| pidgin | simplified form of speech developed from 2 or more languages |
| semantics | study of meaning& word interpretation, exact meaning of a word semantic, semantist |
| standard | adj.- confirming to the established language used by educated speakers, noun- something established as a measure of quality standarize |
| vernacular | noun- everyday language, rather than literary language noun- native language/dialect of a country,place,group adj.- commonly spoken by a region/group |