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ACRONYM - word formed from initial letters of another word

ACROTELEUTIC - phrase or words at the end of a psalm

ADVERSATIVE - word or phrase expressing opposition

AMBIGRAM - word or words that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point, such as both right side up and upside down

ANTAGONYM - single word containing meanings that contradict each other, such as ‘cleave’ which can mean both ‘cut apart’ and ‘hold together’.

ANTONYM - word of opposite meaning. ‘Love’ as the antonym of ‘hate’.

ANTONYM - a word opposite in meaning to another.

ARGON - slang

ARITHMOGRAM - number composed of numerical values of letters in a word

AUTOANTONYM - word that can mean the opposite of itself.

BIVERBAL - of, like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense

BUZZWORD - word that is fashionable and used more to impress than to inform; in particular a word of a specialized field or group used primarily to impress laypersons

CAPITONYM - word which changes its meaning and pronunciation when capitalized, examples include polish and Polish, august and August, concord and Concord.

CLERIHEW - is a short comic or nonsensical poem that details the life of a famous figure in just a few lines.​

COHYPONYM - word which is one of multiple hyponyms of another word

CONTRONYM - a word which is its own opposite. "Cleave," meaning "adhere" and "separate."

COPULA - a copulative word (connecting words or clauses)

CRYPTOPHASIA - a language consisting of words or phrases understandable only between twins and which is usually developed as the twins grow up together.

DERIVATION - a word that comes from another language.

EPITROPE - a figure of speech in which permission is granted to do what someone proposes to do or is already doing.

EQUIVOQUE - an equivocal word, phrase, or expression; also, a pun or double meaning; also, ambiguity.

HYPERNYM - word representing a class of words or things

HYPONYM - word more specific than a related generic term. For example: spoon is a hyponym of cutlery.

INKHORNISM - pedantic word or expression

ISONYM - word having the same derivation or form as another

KENNING - replacement of a common noun by a more exciting compound, for example ‘Information superhighway’ rather than ‘Internet.’

LACUNA - a non-English word that describes something for which there is no English word

LOGOGRAM - written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation

METONYM - word standing in for something connected to it, such as ‘the Crown’ when referring to the monarchy, ‘the bottle’ when referring to alcohol, ‘wheels’ when referring to a car.

NOMIC - customary, ordinary; describing the usual English spelling of a word, as distinct from phonetic spellings.

OXYMORON - figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).

OXYTONE - relating to or being a word that has an acute accent on the last syllable, especially a Greek word; also, a word with this quality.

PALABRA - a word; talk

PALINDROME - a word, phrase, clause, or sentence that reads the same regularly as it does when its letters are reversed; a type of palingram. "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama."

PALINGRAM - a word, phrase, clause, or sentence that reads the same backwards after rearranging segments. "Workmate did teamwork," is a palingram, because the sentence can be rearranged into four four-letter segments, with one three-letter segment in the middle; by reversing the order of the segments and, when necessary, rearranging the letters within each segment, the sentence reads the same backwards.

PANGRAM - a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet; a holalphabetic sentence.

PARONYM - a paronymous word.

PARONYMOUS - of or relating to a word having the same stem as another. Beautiful and beauteous are paranymous words, or paranyms.

PAROXYTONE - relating to or being a word that has an acute accent on the next to last syllable; also, a word with this quality.

PEJORATIVE - an insult or a word with a negative connotation that expresses contempt, dismissiveness, or hatred.
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POLYSEMY - an instance of a word or sentence or other writing being polysemous.

PORTMANTEAU - word formed by blending two existing words

REPETEND - figures, words, notes or numbers that are repeated

RHEMA - word; verb

SLURVIAN - English characterized by slurred pronunciation. Examples include ‘gimme’ instead of ‘give me,’ ‘d'jo’ instead of ‘did you,’ and ‘Frisco’ instead of ‘San Francisco.’

SYNONYM - a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close.

TETRAGRAMMATON - sacred word or acronym of four letters
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