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Which term means “the use of a word that suggests two or more of its meanings, or suggests a similar sounding word”?

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Onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggest sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called a onomatopoeia.
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