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Arcane Lexicon of Erudite Terminology
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Specialized vocabulary used in particular professions
  • 4. A concise and witty statement expressing a general truth
  • 5. Inversion of conventional word order for emphasis
  • 7. Blend of two words to create a new one
  • 11. Art of investigating or discussing truth by opposites
  • 13. Branch of linguistics concerned with meaning
  • 17. Repetition of one's own words or phrases involuntarily
  • 18. The semantic relation of sameness or similarity in meaning
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  • 2. Using few words; terse, often with an air of mystery
  • 3. Rules governing sentence structure and word arrangement
  • 6. Word consisting of multiple syllables, often complex
  • 8. Study of word origins and development through history
  • 9. Smooth sliding motion (figuratively in language, a glide)
  • 10. Pertaining to a metrically incomplete line in poetry
  • 12. To deliberately make obscure or unclear, often in speech or writing
  • 14. Loan translation from another language, word for word
  • 15. Smallest linguistic unit bearing meaning
  • 16. Mild or indirect term substituting a harsh one
  • 19. Word with opposite meaning to another

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