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a widely held, but rigid, oversimplified and generalised idea, opinion or belief about a particular type of thing or person, such as gender, age, race, nationality, culture and sexual preference. It does not allow for individual difference, e.g. All Americans are loud. Men are better businesspeople than women. Old people are helpless.
a question that does not require or expect an answer, e.g. Why does he bother to come at all?...
a word that has come down to us from an earlier form of the language. Father is an inherited...
a figure of speech in which an apparent contradiction is made, and in which the two contrasting...
a syllable that ends in a consonant, e.g. cap, sit, men.