Vocab 1 Flashcards by Judeline Pineda | Brainscape

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Annotation

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An explanatory note

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Appellation

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A name or title

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Eponym

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A person whose name is used to make a word

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Linguistic

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Study of language

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Malapropism

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A numerous confusion of words

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Neologism

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A new word

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Parlance

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A particular manner of speaking

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Patois

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A nonstandard dialect

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Polyglot

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Using several languages

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Vulgar

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Crude or indecent

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