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a word that means the opposite of another word

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words that are used by a particular group of people

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a new word that is formed by removing a part of another word. In English, ‘burgle’ is a back formation from ‘burglar’.

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a word that has become very popular, especially a word relating to a particular activity or subject

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a word used for representing a particular idea, usually one that is popular for a short time

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a word in a language that has the same origin as a word in a different language

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a word that is often used with another word

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a word that is used to join other words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, for example ’and’, ’because’, and ’but’

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a word made by leaving out a letter or letters of a word or words. For example ‘can’t’ is a contraction of the word ‘cannot’.

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a name used for a person who lives in or comes from a particular place, such as Parisian for a person from Paris

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a word that comes from another language

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a word formed by adding a diminutive suffix

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a word that is used for showing a change in the way the conversation is developing or for showing the other speaker how you are reacting to what they are saying. Typical discourse markers include ‘well’, ‘oh’, and ‘OK’.

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a word in a language that looks or sounds similar to a word in another language but means something different. For example ‘actual’ in English and ‘aktuell’ in German look similar but have different meanings.

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a word used mainly for expressing relationships between other words in a sentence, for example a conjunction like ‘but’ or a preposition like ‘with’

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a word that is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning and sometimes a different pronunciation

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a word that is spelled the same or sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning

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a word that sounds the same as another word but has its own spelling, meaning, and origin

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a superordinate

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a word with a more specific meaning than another more general word of which it is an example. For example, ‘potato’ is a hyponym of ‘vegetable’.

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a word that represents the main feature or idea of something

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a word or phrase used in law

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a word from one language that is used in another language without being changed

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a word that is used wrongly but sounds like the word that you should have used, especially one that creates a funny change of meaning

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a word with only one syllable. The words ‘yes’ and ‘no’ are monosyllables.

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a word that someone invents for a particular purpose or occasion

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one of the main grammatical groups that a particular word belongs to according to the way it is used in a sentence, for example noun, verb, adjective, or adverb

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a word that has more than two syllables

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a word that combines the sound and meaning of two words, for example ‘smog’, a combination of ‘smoke’ and ‘fog’

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a word, usually an adjective or adverb, that comes after the word it describes

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a word, usually an adjective or adverb, that comes before the word that it describes

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a word, usually a pronoun, that is used in place of another word to avoid repeating it

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a word that ends with the same sound as another word

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a word that includes the meaning of more specific words. For example, ‘vehicle’ is the superordinate of words such as ‘car’ and ‘truck’.

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a word that has the same meaning as another word. For example ‘scared’ is a synonym for ‘afraid’.

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similar meaning in different words

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a different form, spelling, or pronunciation of a word

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a word that someone uses to avoid saying what they really mean

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a part of speech

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a word that has been invented to describe a new idea or product

used for referring to the most important word in a sentence