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Etymology
Greek Roots
100
You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that’s going to change our lives. . .
Walter
100
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
rhyme
100
The hospital was like a refrigerator.
simile
100
Teach+er=Teacher
affixation
100
"derm"
skin
200
You making something inside me cry, son. Some awful pain inside me.
Momma
200
The classroom was a desert.
metaphor
200
whoosh, passing breeze flags flutter and flap frog croaks, bird whistles babbling bubbles from tap
onomotopeia
200
terabyte
coinage
200
"cosmo"
world
300
I live the answer! (pause) In my village at home it is the exceptional man who can even read a newspaper...or who ever sees a book at all. I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village...
Joseph Asaigai
300
Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.
alliteration
300
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
personification
300
Spoon+fork= spork
blending
300
"dict"
say
400
Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy spiritual s and some grass huts.
George Murchisson
400
A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
Paradox
400
I’ve told you a million times!
hyperbole
400
enchiladas
borrowing
400
"patri"
father
500
ell – it’s what you might call a sort of welcoming committee, I guess. I mean they, we – I’m the chairman of the committee – go around and see the new people who move into the neighborhood and sort of give them the lowdown on the way we do things out in Clybourne Park.
Carl Lidner
500
I've been to the dentist many times so I know the drill.
pun
500
Here are the rules: Ignore all rules.
paradox
500
Airplane - air = plane
clipping
500
"tact"
touch
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