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| 56164167 | Archaism | an old word or phrase no longer in general spoken or written use. | 0 | |
| 833781809 | Neologism | A new word, expression, or usage | 1 | |
| 177217646 | Coinage | A word or phrase that is made, invented or fabricated | 2 | |
| 244046601 | Collocation | Two or more words that co-occur in a language frequently | 3 | |
| 344271218 | Borrowing | The introduction of a word from one language to another | 4 | |
| 132950649 | Anglicised loan word | A borrowed word that has altered in its pronunciation or meaning | 5 | |
| 514326166 | Non-anglicised loan word | A borrowed word whose form has not altered | 6 | |
| 194677030 | Eponym | A person for whom something is or is thought to be named. | 7 | |
| 629655354 | Acronym | A lexcalised word made up form the initial letters of a phrase (sounded as a word) | 8 | |
| 266593215 | Initialism | A word formed from the initial letter of each of the successive words that is not pronounced as a word, but by each letter | 9 | |
| 612161813 | Clipping | A new word produced by shortening an existing one | 10 | |
| 681864101 | Affixation | The addition of bound morphemes to an existing word | 11 | |
| 950302390 | Prefixing | To attach a bound morpheme at the head of an already existing word as in 'reboot, decryption, hyperlink, unfriend' | 12 | |
| 847102767 | Suffixing | Creating a new word by attaching a bound morpheme to the foot of an already existing word as in 'hacker' | 13 | |
| 274516250 | Conversion | A word changes its word class without adding a suffix | 14 | |
| 869932978 | Compound | The combining of separate words to create a new word, sometimes using a hyphen | 15 | |
| 435336952 | Blend | Two words fusing to make a new one | 16 | |
| 955162535 | Amelioration | A word taking on a more positive meaning, gaining status | 17 | |
| 478693527 | Pejoration | A word taking on a more negative meaning, losing status | 18 | |
| 339291755 | Broadening | A word acquiring additional, new meanings | 19 | |
| 628061728 | Metaphor | Non-literal word usage | 20 | |
| 628061729 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 21 | |
| 787205891 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 22 | |
| 799436894 | Vowel omission | pls, ppl | 23 | |
| 293357316 | Homophonic representation | 2L8, M8, qt | 24 | |
| 166545509 | Phonetic spelling | U, R, cos | 25 |
