English III AP Set 1
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chasity0416 on August 30, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Appellation |  (n) a name or title that distinguishes or identifies |
| Diphthong | (n) speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semivowel contained in a single syllable |
| Eponym | (n) a person for who something is or is thought to be named |
| Linguistics | (n) the study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature; and how it changes |
| Neologism | (n) a newly made-up word, phrase, or expression |
| Parlance | (n) a particular manner or kind of speech; for example legal parlance |
| Patois | (n) a dialect other than the standard dialect of language, of a particular group |
| Polyglot | (adj) consisting of many groups speaking different languages; speaking or writing several languages; containing elements or material from difference languages (n) a person who can speak or write several languages |
| Solecism | (n) the ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence; a violation of good manners or good taste; something out of the normal or proper order |
| Vulgar | (adj) spoken by or using the language spoken by the common people rather than literary, cultured, or learned people; vernacular; lacking taste or delicacy; coarse; conspicuous and excessive; pretentious |
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