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    Meaning of a word

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    written word inferior to the spoken‚ and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture in even the most transcendent passages falls far short of the richness of life. Dialogue achieves its power in the dynamics of a fleeting moment of sight‚ sound‚ smell and touch." -excerpt taken from Gloria Naylor’s ’The Meanings of a Word’. Words The first sentence of this excerpt can have several interpretations‚ depending on which synonym of the word ’language’

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    WORD CHOICE

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    WORD CHOICE A writer’s selection of words as determined by a number of factors‚ including meaning (both denotative and connotative)‚ specificity‚ level of diction‚ and tone. "Word choice often determines whether or not you get your message across. Making poor word choices and not writing appropriately for the audience can distract the reader so much that the message you intended to convey is missed." Definition of Slang: An informal nonstandard variety of speech characterized by newly coined

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    Morpheme and Compound Word

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    _DARIA ZAGREBA‚ 3AA_ _TASK 1_ The word BEGGARLY can be segmented into two morphemes: beggar- + -ly. Semantically beggar- is a root-morpheme; -ly is an affix. Structurally beddar- is a free morpheme; -ly is a bound morpheme. The word POSTMAN can be segmented into two morphemes: post- + man-. Semantically post- and man- are root-morphemes. Structurally post- and man- are free morphemes. The word SHORTEN can be segmented into two morphemes: short- + -en. Semantically short- is a root-morpheme;

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    Visual Word Priming

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    types of indirect tests. They can be grouped in three categories: visual word priming‚ auditory word priming‚ and visual object priming. Stem completion‚ fragment completion‚ word identification and lexical decision paradigms have been used to investigate visual word priming. In word stem completion task‚ participants are given the first letters of the critical word (e.g. let__) and are asked to complete the stem with the first word that comes to mind (e.g. lettuce). Participants who are using their

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    Word Fleek Analysis

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    and speak Ebonics myself‚ but my nieces‚ nephew‚ and my children’s generation had taken it to a whole new level of words that are not even in the English dictionary. They toke two completely different words combine together only to form a whole new word. Not like when I was growing up where we took the words and just change its meaning and sometime played on the spelling of the word. In the 90’s Men used to say to women you look phat in those jeans. Which he is‚ she is looking pretty hot and tempting

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    Morphology Morphology is a field of linguistics focused on the study of the forms and formation of words in a language. A morpheme is the smallest indivisible unit of a language that retains meaning. The rules of morphology within a language tend to be relatively regular‚ so that if one sees the noun morphemes for the first time‚ for example‚ one can deduce that it is likely related to the word morpheme.

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    Word formation

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    Word formation From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In linguistics‚ word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change‚ which is a change in a single word’s meaning. The boundary between word formation and semantic change can be difficult to define: a new use of an old word can be seen as a new word derived from an old one and identical to it in form (see conversion). Word formation can also be contrasted with the formation of idiomatic expressions

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    linguistics has to do with how words are shaped‚ and how the shapes of words may be systematically adjusted in order to accomplish communicative tasks. You can also think of morphology as the study of how meaningful units combine to shape words. There is connection between a word and a morpheme but a number of elements that can be drawn as either a similarity or difference concerning the two terms. In view‚ this essay will look at the similarities and differences between a word and morpheme. Aronoff and

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    Definition Essay: My Word

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    English 101 Definition Essay February 1‚ 2011 My Word In today’s time our vocabularies have widened greatly. Using different languages or missing words are not uncommon. Many different places use various slang terms in conversation. Janky is a term that originated from a Truett McConnell student. It has many definitions and can be used in various forms. It was created as a universal meaning for many different sayings or emotions. Many words in our language today have been made into slang terms

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    Little John Learning Center Vocabulary-Unit 1 Ms. Lizette Name:_______________________________________ Score: Write the word that best describes the following pictures and use them in a sentence. You can use the words in the box. Bottom attack arrive angry agree Clever afraid finally cruel hide 1. ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

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