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Prefix

To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.

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Affix 76% connected

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrume…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffix 94% connected

A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffix 94% connected

A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Acronym noun · 86% connection

a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word; "‘NATO’ is an initialism for North…

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Admixture noun · 86% connection

the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"

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Allomorph noun · 86% connection

a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of ‘bets’ and ‘beds’ and ‘horses’ and ‘oxen’ are allomorphs of…

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Attachment noun · 86% connection

the act of attaching or affixing something

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Base noun · 86% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Blend noun · 86% connection

the act of blending components together thoroughly

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Blending noun · 86% connection

the act of blending components together thoroughly

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Classifier noun · 86% connection

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…

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Combination noun · 86% connection

the act of combining things to form a new whole

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Combining noun · 86% connection

the act of combining things to form a new whole

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Combining form noun · 86% connection

a bound form used only in compounds; "‘hemato-’ is a combining form in words like ‘hematology’"

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Commixture noun · 86% connection

the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"

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Compound noun · 86% connection

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…

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Compound word noun · 86% connection

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…

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Compounding noun · 86% connection

the act of combining things to form a new whole

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Confusion noun · 86% connection

an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended; "the confusion of tongues at the To…

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Ending noun · 86% connection

the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have ‘-ism’ as an ending"

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Fusion noun · 86% connection

the act of fusing (or melting) together

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-escent unknown · 78% connection

A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.

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Accent noun · 78% connection

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

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Alliteration noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Anacrusis noun · 78% connection

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

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Apheresis noun · 78% connection

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

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Aphetic adjective · 78% connection

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

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Appointment noun · 78% connection

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appoint…

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Beginning rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Bond noun · 78% connection

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

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Circumflex noun · 78% connection

A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and so…

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Closed syllable noun · 78% connection

a syllable that ends with a consonant.; "The vowel in a closed syllable is short."

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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

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Compare verb · 78% connection

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of on…

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