| pronounce How is this word pronounced? | mispronounce | spell | misspell ‘Necessary’ is one of the most commonly misspelt words in English. Every word he utters is treated as sacred text. | say, speak, use, utter He uses lots of long words.
VERB + WORD have Spanish has no word for ‘understatement’. | spoken, written She combines visual images and the spoken word to great effect in her presentations. | buzz (also buzzword), vogue E-marketing is the current buzzword. the immortal words of Neil Armstrong as he stepped onto the moon | code The police use code words for their major operations. (see also swear word) | famous, household, immortal His name has become a household word since he first appeared in the series.
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| dirty, four-letter, naughty, obscene, rude, taboo The play is full of four-letter words. | right, wrong You can't always find the right word when you're translating. | archaic, obsolete | key He wrote down a few key words to help him remember what to say. | clear, plain | ambiguous | abstract, concrete | everyday I find even everyday words difficult to spell. | foreign | content, function | exact, precise, very His exact words were, ‘There's nothing we can do about it.’ Those were her very words. | compound | native | borrowed, loan When a new fruit is first imported, its name is usually also imported as a loan word. | big, long He uses big words to impress people. | monosyllabic, disyllabic | two-syllable, three-syllable, etc.