abuse of terms, amphiboly, back formation, compound, corruption, endocentric compound, exocentric compound, logogram, metagram, paronomasia, pun, tatpurusha
Definitionn. a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
Last update: August 15, 2015
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I haven't come across any acrostics yet. [Please select]
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This book is worthy of note on account of the quaint and sarcastic humour of its numerous acrostic verses. [Please select]
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He has sent me an acrostic for my keepsake that--that--" "That I could not have written had I tried till doomsday," finished Fairfax Cary." [Please select]
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_ Another bit of personal verse in my scrap-book is suggested by the reference to Morgan Bates in the letter of September 12th in the form of an acrostic to Clara Doty Bates, his wife. [Please select]
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What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to Miss Marion (Molly) Tweedy on the 14 February 1888. [Please select]
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A work of art is nothing if not _artful_: like an acrostic, the more different ways it can be read--up, down, across, from right to left and from left to right--the better it is, other things being equal. [Please select]
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As a novelty, the following acrostic is presented. [Please select]
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When not in form nor engaged in one or other of these functions, he retired to a faded study and struggled with the weekly acrostic in "Vanity Fair." [Please select]
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