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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year are words of the year lists published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, Inc. The lists feature ten words from the English language. These word lists started in 2003 and have been published at the end of each year. The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened ...
In English, most of the interrogative words begin with the same letters, wh-; in Latin, most also begin with the same letters, qu-. This is not a coincidence, as they are cognates derived from the Proto-Indo-European interrogative pronoun root k w o-, reflected in Proto-Germanic as χ w a-or kh w a-and in Latin as qu-. [citation needed]
Chocolate gravy – Gravy made with cocoa powder [4] Chouriço – Pork sausage originating from the Iberian Peninsula [4] Chwee kueh – Chinese steamed rice cake [39] Cinnamon roll – Sweet pastry [40][41] Buttered crumpet. Coffee cake. Dosa – served as a breakfast dish in India.
Weiße Frauen (German) – Female spirit. Wekufe (Mapuche) – Demon. Wendigo (Algonquian) – Anthropophagous spirit. Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) – Water spirit. Werecat (Worldwide) – Feline-human shapeshifter. Werehyena (Africa) – Hyena-human shapeshifter. Werewolf (Worldwide) – Wolf-human shapeshifter. White Lady (Worldwide) – Ghost ...
e. The English interrogative words (also known as " wh words " or " wh forms ") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and clauses and in asking questions. The main members associated with open-ended questions are how, what, when, where, which, who, whom, whose, and why, all of which also have -ever forms (e.g ...