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cacozelia
noun
A stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned
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cacozelia
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figure of speech
,
expressive style
,
euphuist
,
extradictionary
,
set phrase
,
rhetorical device
,
tralation
,
diction
,
hypallage
,
ideophone
,
dead metaphor
,
grecism
,
dysphemia
,
dramatic irony
,
antiphrasis
,
mannerism
,
hudibrastic
,
hyperbaton
,
tralatition
,
gongorism
,
epanadiplosis
,
italicism
,
johnsonese
,
italianism
,
give voice
,
cockneyism
,
hysteron proteron
,
idioglossia
,
genteelism
,
echoism
,
bumbledom
,
inaffectation
,
eye rhyme
,
word salad
,
vernacularism
,
kyriology
,
antiphrastic
,
subject case
,
verbalist
,
metaphor
,
asteism
,
tapinosis
,
brachyology
,
phonotypy
,
unskillfulness
,
hispanism
,
anacoluthic
,
schesis
,
epiplexis
,
mimical
,
verbality
,
tropology
,
dorism
,
dyslogia
,
verbigeration
,
audenesque
,
euphuize
,
platitudinize
,
syllabism
,
pauciloquy
,
mimically
,
epanorthosis
,
homoioptoton
,
laconism
,
heroic verse
,
idiom
,
representational process
,
tropist
,
witzelsucht
,
chaldaism
,
speech disorder
,
parisyllabic
,
grave accent
,
tragic flaw
,
echopraxia
,
acute accent
,
anacoluthia
,
teutonism
,
conversationism
,
stylistic
,
paraleipsis
,
subtonic
,
dog latin
,
lambdacism
,
affectation
,
onomatope
,
artificial language
,
wellerism
,
assonate
,
tushery
,
idiomatical
,
tone of voice
,
hebraistic
,
agrammatist
,
bovarism
,
impersonification
,
orthoepy
,
laconize
,
psellism
,
atticism
,
cacozelia
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