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| 208488260 | appellation | identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | |
| 208488261 | diphthong | a speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semivowel contained in a single syllable | |
| 208488262 | eponym | a person for whom something is or is thought to be named | |
| 208488263 | linguistics | the study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature, and how it changes | |
| 208488264 | neologism | a newly made-up word, phrase, or expression | |
| 208488265 | parlance | a particular manner or kind of speech | |
| 208488266 | patois | a dialect other than the standard dialect of a language, especially a regional or uneducated form of speech; the distinctive language of a particular group | |
| 208488267 | polyglot | consisting of many groups speaking different languages; speaking or writing several languages; containing elements or material from different languages | |
| 208488268 | solecism | 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 | |
| 208488269 | vulgar | 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 | |
| 208488270 | amulet | an object worn to bring luck or to protect against evil or injury; charm | |
| 208488271 | capricious | characterized by or subject to sudden, unpredictable changes; fickle | |
| 208488272 | fatalism | the belief that all events are determined in advance by fate and cannot be changed by human means | |
| 208488273 | incantation | a set of words spoken as a magic charm or to cast a magic spell | |
| 208488274 | propitious | Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious | |
| 208488275 | providential | resulting from or seeming to result from divine will; fortunate; opportune | |
| 208488276 | quirk | a peculiarity of behavior; an unaccountable act or event | |
| 208488277 | serendipity | the ability to make valuable discoveries by chance; luck | |
| 208488278 | vagary | a wild or unpredictable notion or action; odd fancy | |
| 208488279 | vicissitude | one of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one's life, activities, or surroundings. A change or variation | |
| 208488280 | continuity | the condition of being without a stop or interruption; an uninterrupted succession or flow | |
| 208488281 | converge | to approach the same point from different directions; meet; to move toward a common conclusion or result | |
| 208488282 | crux | the basic or essential feature of something; a baffling or puzzling point that is difficult to explain | |
| 208488283 | initiate | to being; originate; cause to begin; to admit into membership; beginner; novice | |
| 208488284 | pivotal | central or crucial to something; very important; pertaining to a pivot, shaft about which a related part rotates or swings | |
| 208488285 | sequel | something that follows; continuation; a result or consequence; a literary work that, while complete in itself, continues an already existing narrative | |
| 208488286 | subordinate | one subject to the authority of another; of a lower class or rank; inferior; to put in a lower class or rank; make inferior | |
| 208488287 | tangenital | only superficially relevant or related | |
| 208488288 | terminate | to bring to an end | |
| 208488289 | ultimate | last; coming at the end; farthest; extreme; greatest possible |
