certainty and uncertainty

acronym

A word formed from the initial letters of a phrase, often used to simplify lengthy terms or phrases, such as “NASA’’ for National Aeronautics and Space Administration

affix

a word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root. B. something that is attached, joined or added.

coinage

the invention of new words. b. an invented word or phrase. c. the process of making coins

colloquial

used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. b. informal in style of expression

malapropism

the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context

onomatopoeia

the formation of use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for

palindrome

a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.

portmanteau word

a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend

simile

a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as

spoonerism

an accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds