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auxiliary verb
Language; General language
A verb that modifies the voice, tense, or mood of another verb.
auxesis
Language; General language
A figure of speech where emphasis is added by referring to a thing in very exagerated terms.
autonym
Language; General language
The name that either the inhabitants of a place or the members of the group call themselves.
autological word
Language; General language
A word that expresses a property that the word itself possesses — for example, the word noun is a noun, the word English is English, and the word pentasyllabic has five syllables.
auto-antonymy
Language; General language
A process of language change where a word's meaning adds a sense that is the exact opposite of its commonly used meaning.
auditory phonetics
Language; General language
The branch of phonetics that studies how the ear, auditory nerve, and brain perceive speech sounds.
