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TAKE THE QUIZhendiadys
noun
hen·di·a·dys
hen-ˈdī-ə-dəs
: the expression of an idea by the use of usually two independent words connected by and (such as nice and warm) instead of the usual combination of independent word and its modifier (such as nicely warm)
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- Before we went to her house, Hannah told us her aunt was a flibbertigibbet.


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