Language+Terms


 * Language Terms ****﻿ **

**﻿ ﻿ ** **1. Culture-** the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. **﻿** **2. Dialect-** ** a special variety of a language. ** **﻿**

**3. Accent-** prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.

**4. Language-** a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition. ** ﻿ ** **5. Diversity-** the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.

**6. L1-** a person's first learned language.

**7. L2-** a person's second learned language.

**8. Spanglish-** Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.

**9. Synonym-** a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**10. Antonym-** a word opposite in meaning to another. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Example: // Fast // is an antonym of //slow.//

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**11. Idiom-** an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> Example: // kick the bucket //

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**12. Homophone-** a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not. <span style="background-color: #b5d5ff; color: #800080; cursor: default; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Example: //heir// and //air.//

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