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  2. Malapropism - Wikipedia

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    The correct word in question is actually infested. Emily Litella , a fictional character created and performed by American comedian Gilda Radner used malapropism to entertain viewers on the late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live , [ 17 ] including one skit in which she was puzzled over the hubbub surrounding the "plight of Soviet jewelry ...

  3. Implausible - Wikipedia

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    Search for Implausible in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Implausible article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Principal is an adjective meaning "main" (though it can also be a noun meaning the head of a college or similar institution). Principle is a noun meaning a fundamental belief or rule of action. Standard: The principal achievement of the nineteenth century is the rise of industry. Standard: He got sent to the principal's office for talking ...

  7. Infinite regress - Wikipedia

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    [4] [1] [7] Other types occur when the infinite regress is responsible for the theory in question being implausible or for its failure to solve the problem it was formulated to solve. [4] [7] The vice of an infinite regress can be local if it causes problems only for certain theories when combined with other assumptions, or global otherwise.

  8. List of Latin phrases (L) - Wikipedia

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    From late 4th-century grammarian Honoratus Maurus, who sought to mock implausible word origins such as those proposed by Priscian. It is a jesting suggestion that since the word lucus (dark grove) has a similar appearance to the verb lucere (to shine), the former word is derived from the latter word because of a lack of light in wooded groves.

  9. Markedness - Wikipedia

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    In The Sound Pattern of English, the value of a grammar was the inverse of the number of features required in that grammar. However, Chomsky and Halle realized that their initial approach to phonological features made implausible rules and segment inventories as highly valued as natural ones.