1. Week 1 Vocabulary Preview

2. acronym

3. acronym – A word formed from the initial letters or parts of a series of words: WAC for Women’s Army Corps

4. Affix

5. affix – a. A word element such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root. b. Something that is attached, joined or added. c. To secure to another; attach.

6. coinage

7. coinage – a. The invention of new words. b. An invented word or phrase. c. The process of making coins.

8. colloquial

9. colloquial – a. Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. b. Informal in style of expression.

10. diminutive

11. diminutive – a. A suffix that indicates small size, youth, familiarity, affection or contempt. b. a nickname indicating affection or familiarity. c. Extremely small; tiny.

12. metonymy

13. metonymy – A figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word.

14. oxymoron

15. oxymoron – An expression that contains contradictory terms.

16. palindrome

17. palindrome – A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. “mom” “racecar”

18. portmanteau word

19. portmanteau word – A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend.

20. spoonerism

21. spoonerism – An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds: “the tons of soil” instead of “the sons of toil”

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