Word Elements
Monmouth College
List of Important Terms

Be prepared to DEFINE or IDENTIFY each of the following terms (based on Richard Lederer's Word Circus). Where appropriate, give a linguistic example.  For a list of these terms with definitions and examples added, click here.

1
grammagram
homophone
heteronym
capitonym

2
anagram
aptagram

antigram
looping anagram

3
palindrome
semordnilap

4
5
charade words

6
beheadments
curtailments

7
kangaroo words

8
acrobat words
spoonerisms

9
abstemious words
mirror words
pangram
pyramid word
isogram

10
acrostic
lipogram

11
logology
 

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