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acceptance, accidence, acrostic, acting out, actor's line, adoption, agnus dei, anagrams, annotate, antonym, apprisal, approval, assonance, assonant, autocue, borrowing, caressive, choice of words, citation, collocate, concisely, conciseness, concision, concluding, concordance, conjunction, conjunctive, connective, consonance, construction, contraction, contrary, contrastive, copycat, cursive script, deletion, description, dies irae, dunderhead, dyslectic, dyslexic, echoic, eclipsis, elision, ellipsis, emphasize, etymon, expression, falsify, formulate, geminate, golden rule, good speller, hammerhead, heartrending, homograph, homonym, homophone, horrible, hypallage, hyphenate, idiom, id est, inflected, inscription, interpret, inversion, irish bull, justified, justify, knucklehead, latino, lettering, lexical, lexicon, librettist, libretto, line of verse, lingeringly, lip reader, loggerhead, logomach, long-winded, lyricist, masora, masorah, mimesis, monotone, muttonhead, nathan hale, nonverbal, numerate, obsolete, ology, omission, opposite, outpouring, pantomime, paraphrase, part of speech, phrase structure, piracy, pithiness, plagiarist, pleonasm, poor speller, proximate, redundant, reflection, reflexion, rhyming slang, running hand, scat singing, similar, songwriter, sound structure, speakable, speech rhythm, spell-checker, spinmeister, spin doctor, string of words, subtilize, succinctness, superfluous, surtitle, syllepsis, synonym, syntagma, synthetic, tedious, throwaway, tushery, unspoken, verbalised, verbalized, verbatim, verbiage, verboseness, vowel rhyme, well-chosen, well-meaning, word-perfect, word-worship, word blindness, word for word, word order, word structure

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