Salter- final vocab

Voice

Your personality as expressed through your writing

Style

Your unique way of adapting your language to suit different occasions

Tired word

Words that have lost their freshness and force

euphemism

Indirect, agreeable terms used in place of more direct, less appealing

Loaded word

Used to provoke strong feeling,either positive or negative

Slang

Highly informal language that consists of made up words or words used in new ways

Colloquialism

Words and phrases of conversational language

Malapropism

Words that sound like the correct words but are not

gobbledygook

Wordy, puffed-up language

chliche

Tired expressions

Connotation

The emotional meaning or association that people may connect to the word

Synonym

Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning

Idiom

Conversational phrases that mean something different from the literal meaning

nonsexist language

Language that applies to people in general

Denotation

Refers to a words literal meaning

Tone

Feelings you convey through your voice when you write or speak

Jargon

A special language used by groups of people in a particular occupation, hobby, or field of study