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  2. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive.. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions, sexual activity, genitalia, blasphemies, and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally four-character monosyllables.

  3. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Frequency analysis, the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters; Letter frequencies; Oxford English Corpus; Swadesh list, a compilation of basic concepts for the purpose of historical-comparative linguistics; Zipf's law, a theory stating that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table

  4. Category:English words - Wikipedia

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  5. What does ‘skibidi’ mean? Kids’ top slang words of the year ...

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    Skibidi has no real meaning – it can simultaneously mean bad or good or weird, depending on the context of the conversation. It can also be used a gibberish filler word.

  6. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Most adjectives are gradable, [4] but some are not (e.g., ancillary, bovine, municipal, pubic, first, etc.), or at least have particular senses in which they are not. [22] For example a very Canadian embassy can imply that the embassy has the stereotypically Canadian characteristics (politeness perhaps), but it cannot mean that the embassy ...

  7. Postpositive adjective - Wikipedia

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    In particular instances, however, such languages may also feature prepositive adjectives. In French, certain common adjectives, including grand ("big"), usually precede the noun, while in Italian and Spanish they can be prepositive or postpositive adjectives: le grand cheval, "the big horse"

  8. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  9. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.