Words About Words Flashcards
(19 cards)
1
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Archaic
A
- outdated
- referring to a more primitive time
2
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Cant
A
Hypocritical statement
3
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Ineffable
A
Too great for words
4
Q
Invective
A
Verbal abuse
5
Q
Malapropism
A
Act/habit of misusing words ridiculously
6
Q
Neologism
A
The creation or use of new words
7
Q
Parse
A
Analyze in terms of a thing’s constituent parts
8
Q
Phenomenology
A
Study of subject and objects of a person’s experience
9
Q
Polygot
A
Speaker of many languages
10
Q
Prolix
A
Wordy; prolonged
11
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Solecism
A
Misuse, blunder
12
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Soliloquy
A
Apostrophe; speech by one
13
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Sophistry
A
Deception
14
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Specious
A
Attractively misleading
15
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Verbiage
A
Repetition, wordiness
16
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Cumbersome
A
- large, heavy, and difficult to use
- slow, complicated, and inefficient
17
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Emanate
A
Originate from; produced by
18
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Bereft
A
Archaic
19
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Concomitant
A
A phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something
