phraseological

[frey-zee-ol-uh-jee]

phra·se·ol·o·gy

[frey-zee-ol-uh-jee]
noun
1.
manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
2.
expressions; phrases: obscure phraseology.

Origin:
1655–65; < New Greek phraseología (erroneously for *phrasiología), coined by German humanist Michael Neander (1525–95); see phrase, -o-, -logy

phra·se·o·log·i·cal [frey-zee-uh-loj-i-kuhl] , phra·se·o·log·ic, adjective
phra·se·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb


1. See diction.

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Phraseological is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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phraseology (ˌfreɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪ)
 
n , pl -gies
1.  the manner in which words or phrases are used
2.  a set of phrases used by a particular group of people
 
phraseological
 
adj
 
phraseo'logically
 
adv

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