synonym - a word which has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word, prefix - a meaningful group of letter added to the beginning of a root or base word to make a new word, which can be a different part of speech from the original word, false cognate - a word in the target language which looks or sounds as if it has the same meaning as a similar word in the learners' L1 but does not, affix - a meaningful group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word to make a new word, which can be a different part of speech than the original word, phrasal verb - a verb which is made of more than one word which has a different meaning from each individual word, homonym - a word with the smae spelling as another word, but which has a different meaning, word family - a group of words that are related to each other by their root or base word, suffix - a meaningful group of letters added to the end of a root or base word to make a new word, which can be a different part of speech from the original word, antonym - the opposite of another word, lexical set - a group of words or phrases that are about the same content topic or subject, compound - nouns, verbs, adjectives or prepositions that are made up of two or more words with one unit of meaning, root word - a basic word or part of a word from which other words can be made by adding a prefix or suffix or in some other way, collocation - words which are regularly used together. The relation between the words may be grammatical or lexical., idiom - a group of words that are used together, in which the meaning of the whole word group is different from the meaning of each individual word , homophone - a word which sounds the same as another word, but has a different meaning or spelling, register - the formality or informality of the language used in a particular situation,

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