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- alliterative
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- anagram
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- a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- complexity of meaning,
- double entendre,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- irony,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- paronomasia,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- punning,
- richness of meaning,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty
- palindrome
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- a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- anastrophe,
- calembour,
- chiasmus,
- corruption,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hysteron proteron,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- missaying,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- wordplay
- acrostic
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- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- calembour,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- formation,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- assonant
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- having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
- having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'" related words >
- accordant,
- according,
- alliteral,
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- assonantal,
- attuned,
- belabored,
- blended,
- blending,
- chanting,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- concordant,
- consonant,
- dingdong,
- harmonic,
- harmonious,
- harmonizing,
- harping,
- homophonic,
- humdrum,
- in accord,
- in chorus,
- in concert,
- in concord,
- in sync,
- in tune,
- in unison,
- jingle-jangle,
- jingling,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
- monodic,
- monophonic,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- punning,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- singsong,
- symphonious,
- synchronized,
- synchronous,
- tedious,
- tuned,
- unisonant,
- unisonous
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- corruption,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- punning,
- quip,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- utter a mot,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- spoonerism
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- transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formation,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- metagram,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- solecism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- double entendre
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- an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- belly laugh,
- blue story,
- complexity of meaning,
- counterword,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ethnic joke,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- good one,
- good story,
- howler,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- laugh,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- panic,
- paronomasia,
- play,
- point,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- punning,
- rib tickler,
- richness of meaning,
- riot,
- scream,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- sport,
- squinting construction,
- story,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty,
- visual joke,
- weasel word,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- yarn
- pun
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- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- ambiguity,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- chime,
- clink,
- corruption,
- counterword,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- double entendre,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- near rhyme,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- poke fun at,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- punning,
- quip,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- slant rhyme,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- squinting construction,
- utter a mot,
- weasel word,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- irony
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- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs related words >
- Atticism,
- Janus,
- agile wit,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- complexity of meaning,
- conjugation,
- cynicism,
- dichotomy,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dry wit,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esprit,
- farce,
- halving,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- lampoon,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- nimble wit,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- parody,
- paronomasia,
- pleasantry,
- polarity,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- pretty wit,
- punning,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- richness of meaning,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- self-contradiction,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- visual humor,
- wit
- malapropism
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- the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- logogram
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- a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- allegory,
- alphabet,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- arrowhead,
- art,
- blueprint,
- calembour,
- character,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- charactery,
- chart,
- choreography,
- cipher,
- conventional representation,
- conventional symbol,
- corruption,
- cuneiform,
- dance notation,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demotic character,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- determinative,
- diagram,
- drama,
- drawing,
- emblem,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exemplification,
- figuration,
- grammalogue,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- hiragana,
- iconography,
- iconology,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- jeu de mots,
- kana,
- katakana,
- letter,
- limning,
- logograph,
- logogriph,
- logotype,
- love knot,
- malapropism,
- map,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- musical notation,
- notation,
- ogham,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- phonetic,
- phonetic symbol,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- picturization,
- plan,
- play on words,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- projection,
- pun,
- punning,
- radical,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- rune,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- shorthand,
- spoonerism,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- symbolic system,
- symbolism,
- symbolization,
- symbology,
- tablature,
- token,
- totem,
- totem pole,
- type,
- wedge,
- word letter,
- wordplay,
- writing
- accord,
- accordance,
- accordant,
- according,
- alliteral,
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- assonant,
- assonantal,
- attune,
- attuned,
- attunement,
- belabored,
- blended,
- blending,
- change ringing,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chink,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- cliche-ridden,
- clink,
- concentus,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concordant,
- consonance,
- consonancy,
- consonant,
- consort,
- diapason,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- donging,
- euphony,
- harmonic,
- harmonics,
- harmonious,
- harmonizing,
- harmony,
- harping,
- heavy harmony,
- homophonic,
- homophony,
- humdrum,
- in accord,
- in chorus,
- in concert,
- in concord,
- in sync,
- in tune,
- in unison,
- jangle,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jingling,
- jog-trot,
- knell,
- knelling,
- labored,
- monochord,
- monodic,
- monody,
- monophonic,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- musical,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- punning,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- ring,
- ringing,
- singsong,
- sounding,
- symphonic,
- symphonious,
- symphony,
- synchronism,
- synchronization,
- synchronized,
- synchronous,
- tedious,
- three-part harmony,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabular,
- tintinnabulary,
- tintinnabulous,
- toll,
- tolling,
- tune,
- tuned,
- unison,
- unisonance,
- unisonant,
- unisonous
- corruption
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- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) related words >
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- abomination,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- adulteration,
- alienation,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- antiphrasis,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- barbarism,
- bastardizing,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- blight,
- brainwashing,
- breakup,
- bribery,
- bribery and corruption,
- bribing,
- cacoepy,
- cacology,
- calembour,
- carrion,
- college of Laputa,
- colloquialism,
- contamination,
- corrosion,
- corruptedness,
- corruptness,
- counterindoctrination,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- crying evil,
- cutting,
- damage,
- dandruff,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- defilement,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- deviousness,
- dilapidation,
- dilution,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dissoluteness,
- dissolution,
- doctoring,
- envenoming,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- evasiveness,
- evil,
- excrement,
- false coloring,
- feloniousness,
- festering,
- filth,
- fortifying,
- foul matter,
- fouling,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furfur,
- gammacism,
- gangrene,
- graft,
- grievance,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hurt,
- ill,
- improbity,
- impropriety,
- indirection,
- indoctrination,
- infection,
- infelicity,
- injury,
- jeu de mots,
- lacing,
- lambdacism,
- localism,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- mess,
- metagram,
- mildew,
- mischief,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misinterpretation,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mispronunciation,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misspeaking,
- misteaching,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mold,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mystification,
- mytacism,
- obfuscation,
- obscenity,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- ordure,
- outrage,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- palindrome,
- paralambdacism,
- pararhotacism,
- paronomasia,
- perversion,
- play on words,
- poison,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- profligacy,
- prostitution,
- pun,
- punning,
- pus,
- putrid matter,
- reindoctrination,
- reprobacy,
- resolution,
- rhotacism,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- rust,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- shadiness,
- shiftiness,
- slang,
- slanting,
- slime,
- slipperiness,
- smut,
- snot,
- solecism,
- sophistry,
- sordes,
- spiking,
- spoilage,
- spoonerism,
- straining,
- subornation,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- taboo word,
- the worst,
- torturing,
- toxin,
- trickiness,
- turpitude,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vitiation,
- vulgarism,
- watering,
- woe,
- wordplay,
- wrong
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