Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Lexical Labyrinths of English Linguistics
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Across
- 1. Word or phrase reading identically forwards and backwards
- 2. Study tracing origin and evolution of words
- 3. Approach analyzing language over historical time
- 4. Discipline analyzing sound systems and patterns
- 5. Term describing words with multiple accentuated beats
- 6. Hissing sound common in poetic diction
- 8. Word twin often used to avoid repetition
- 10. Understatement achieved by negating the opposite
- 13. Rare term for small pocket, metaphorically linguistic container
- 14. Word pair identical in sound or spelling but not in meaning
Down
- 7. Words imitating actual sounds
- 9. Repetitive figure starting successive clauses
- 11. Branch dealing with meaning in language
- 12. Pleasant phrase masking harsh reality
- 15. Smallest meaningful unit in language structure
- 16. Sentence using every letter of the alphabet once
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