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  1. polysemous
    having many meanings
  2. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  3. eponymic
    being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym
  4. etymon
    a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
  5. morpheme
    the smallest meaningful language unit
  6. allomorph
    any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
  7. inflected
    (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch
  8. modulated
    changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume
  9. syncretism
    the union of different systems of thought or belief
  10. syncretize
    unite (beliefs or conflicting principles)
  11. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  12. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  13. hypernym
    a word that is more generic than a given word
  14. hyponym
    a word that is more specific than a given word
  15. holonym
    a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part
  16. meronym
    a word that names a part of a larger whole
  17. monosemy
    the property of having a single meaning
  18. polysemy
    the property of a word or expression having multiple meanings
  19. inflection
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  20. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  21. logogram
    a symbol that represents a whole word or phrase
  22. syntagma
    a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit
  23. sandhi
    the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)
  24. phoneme
    a distinct speech sound in a particular language
  25. plosive
    a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
  26. verbify
    make into a verb
  27. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  28. polyptoton
    repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence
  29. periphrasis
    an instance of using more words than needed
  30. lexeme
    a minimal unit in the lexicon of a language
Created on 八月 2, 2007 (updated 二月 6, 2026)

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