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  2. Category:Pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    This is a set category.It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).

  3. Category:Emotions - Wikipedia

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    Zest (positive psychology) This page was last edited on 23 October 2024, at 13:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...

  4. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    English adjectives form a large open category of words in English which, semantically, tend to denote properties such as size, colour, mood, quality, age, ...

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. List of acronyms: M - Wikipedia

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    This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter M. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars

  7. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Adjectives that begin with f are lenited. and as use different syntax constructions. For example: Tha mi nas àirde na mo pheathraichean. → I am taller than my sisters. Is mi as àirde. → I am the tallest. As in English, some forms are irregular, i.e. nas fheàrr (better), nas miosa (worse), etc.

  8. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    The post-central zone includes participles and color terms. The pre-head zone includes adjectives denoting provenance, adjectives with the meaning of "relating to (noun)" (such as annual and political), and nouns. [51] The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language proposes two zones: early pre-head modifiers and residual pre-head modifiers.

  9. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second. When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb.