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6. - Clear and precise pronunciation of words.
7. - Words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings.
13. - Mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt.
15. - Art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
16. - Figure of speech that describes one thing as another in a non-literal way.
18. - Word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
19. - Affix added to the end of a word to modify its meaning or form a new word.
20. - Word used to connect clauses or sentences.

1. - Figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.
2. - Expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words.
3. - Study of the origin and history of words.
4. - Word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward.
5. - Repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words.
8. - Word that imitates the sound it represents.
9. - Scientific study of language and its structure.
10. - Set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in a language.
11. - Affix added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning.
12. - Verb form ending in "-ing" that functions as a noun.
14. - Form of a verb that can function as an adjective or noun.
17. - Word that has the opposite meaning of another word.