Kelsie Sullivan's Vocab

1. Paradigm
Description- A clear or typical example or model.
Part of Speech- Noun
Sentence- They used the charts as a paradigm.
Related Words: (Syn.) example, model, pattern

2. Philology
Description- The “love of words”; literary study.
Part of Speech- Noun
Sentence- In English classes we study philology.
Related Words- (Syn.) linguistics, language, philologists

3. Phonology
Description- The study of speech sounds in language.
Part of Speech- Noun
Sentence- In Germany they study the phonology of the German language.
Related Words- (Syn.) phonetics, phonologic, speech

4. Rhetoric
Description- Study of using language effectively and persuasively.
Part of Speech- Noun
Sentence- In Spanish class, we use rhetoric when studying the language.
Related Words- (Ant.) conciseness (Syn.) oratory, speech

5. Syntax
Description- The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.
Part of Speech- Noun
Sentence- One of the hardest things to grasp in learning another language is correct syntax.
Related Words- (Syn.) structure, speech, grammar