Flashcards in Words About Words Deck (19)
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Archaic
- outdated
- referring to a more primitive time
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Cant
Hypocritical statement
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Ineffable
Too great for words
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Invective
Verbal abuse
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Malapropism
Act/habit of misusing words ridiculously
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Neologism
The creation or use of new words
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Parse
Analyze in terms of a thing's constituent parts
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Phenomenology
Study of subject and objects of a person's experience
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Polygot
Speaker of many languages
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Prolix
Wordy; prolonged
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Solecism
Misuse, blunder
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Soliloquy
Apostrophe; speech by one
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Sophistry
Deception
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Specious
Attractively misleading
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Verbiage
Repetition, wordiness
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Cumbersome
- large, heavy, and difficult to use
- slow, complicated, and inefficient
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Emanate
Originate from; produced by
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Bereft
Archaic
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