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Lesson 1
Our evolving language
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English
9th Grade
09/22/2011
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acronym
 Definition
a word formed from the first letters of each word in a series
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affix
 Definition
a prefix or suffix
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coinage
 Definition
invention of new words
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colloquial
 Definition
conversational language
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diminutive
 Definition
a suffix indicating smallness
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metonymy
 Definition
the use of a closely related word as a substitute
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oxymoron
 Definition
an expression with two contradictory words
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palindrome
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a word that's spelled the same forwards and backwards
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portmanteau word
 Definition
a word formed by a two combined words
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spoonerism
 Definition
a comical switching of the first sounds of words
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