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A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Also: abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly
Something placed before another; A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
Also: accidence, add, adjoin, affix
A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Also: postfix, accidence, add, add extension
Model, example.; Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
Also: design, model, 3, 4
A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
Also: accented, allophone, alveolar, apical
A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
Also: accented, accord, accordant, according
A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
Also: allophone, alveolar, antistrophe, antonym
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