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What is the loss of a final segment of a word?

apocope. Like taking cinema from cinematograph.

A poetic device that replaces a common noun with a more colorful compound is called a _______.

kenning.

What term is used for pronouncing two successive vowels as separate sounds?

diaeresis.

A hyponym is considered an opposite of a _________?

hypernym. This one you could have guessed easily.

When you use the phrase 'un-freaking-believable' you are using a what?

tmesis.