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onomatopoeia

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The song's all about teetering off the precipice of desire, and the title's an onomatopoeia for your heartbeat.

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During each exposure to these ''onomatopoeia'', brain activity was measured.

Because there is no onomatopoeia that could distill the noises this animal makes.

Rob: When we were going to Japan to visit Ruby’s family, her aunties, we were there for a while, and Ruby had lived there for about a year, and she’s so passionate about the language, and she was teaching me some of her favorite words, and some of those are onomatopoeia words.

One type is onomatopoeia; for example, words that describe a cat’s meow or a rooster’s crow are similar across many languages.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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