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Examples
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Answer
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Word formed from the starting letters of other words
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NASA | DNA | SCUBA
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Acronym
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Term that distinguishes the original form of something from a more modern version
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Landline phone | Acoustic Guitar | Snail Mail
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Retronym
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Taxonomic name with identical species and genus names
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Gorilla gorilla | Vulpes vulpes | Rattus rattus
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Tautonym
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Word with similar meaning to another word
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Large, huge | Friend, pal | Retro, Old-fashioned
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Synonym
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Word with opposite meaning to another word
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Amazing, terrible | Friend, Nemesis |Apt, Inapt
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Antonym
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A person whom something is named after. Also the thing that is named after that person
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Achilles, Achilles tendon | Ambrose Burnside, Sideburns | John Duns Scotus, Dunce
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Eponym
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Name given to a place by people who don't live there
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Germany instead of Deutschland | Japan instead of Nihon | アメリカ instead of United States
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Exonym
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Name considered unattractive or unpleasant
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Harry Baals | Dongfish | Osama Vinladen
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Caconym
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Fictitious names often used by authors
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Mark Twain | Dr. Seuss | George Orwell
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Pseudonym
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Word representing a subclass within a broader category
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Apple to Fruit | Dog to Animal | Rose to Flower
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Hyponym
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Codename used to conceal the identity or purpose of an organization, person, or operation
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Lace | Manhattan Project | MKUltra
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Cryptonym
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Name of a geographical feature
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Mount Everest | Death Valley | Lake Victoria
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Geonym
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Name for inhabitants of a given place
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Canadian | Antiguan/Barbudan | Scouser
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Demonym
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Word formed by reversing the letters of another word
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Elvis, lives | Stressed, desserts | Straw, warts
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Ananym
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Name/word that is particularly poorly suited to who/what it describes
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Rob Banks, police officer | Jaime Cardinal Sin, Roman Catholic Archbishop | Funny bone, ulnar nerve
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Inaptonym
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Words with the same spelling and pronounciation but different meanings
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Bank | Well | Date
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Homonym
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Words that are spelled the same but have different pronounciations and meanings
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Bow | Tear | Wind
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Heteronym
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Word where numbers are used to form an abbreviation
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K9 | 24/7 | 5G
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Numeronym
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Name given to bodies of water
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Pacific Ocean | Nile River | Caspian Sea
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Hydronym
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Person whose name is particularly well suited to them
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Sara Blizzard, meteorologist | Thomas Crapper, sanitary engineer | Tiger Woods, golfer
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Aptonym / Euonym
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