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Adjunct
noun · 78% connection
A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in i…
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All
adjective · 78% connection
The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…
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Blasphemy
noun · 78% connection
An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, Go…
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Charm
noun · 78% connection
A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantati…
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Cipher
noun · 78% connection
A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in…
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Cryptography
noun · 78% connection
The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
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Decipher
verb · 78% connection
To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
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Folio
noun · 78% connection
A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and…
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Full point
noun · 78% connection
a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…
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Full stop
noun · 78% connection
a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…
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Fustian
noun · 78% connection
An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject;…
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Hieroglyphic
adjective · 78% connection
A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the pictu…
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Ideography
noun · 78% connection
The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.
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Joinhand
noun · 78% connection
Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters.
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Key
noun · 78% connection
a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
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Logography
noun · 78% connection
A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words.
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Logomachy
noun · 78% connection
Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
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Longhand
noun · 78% connection
The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.
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