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Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word it…

One who classifies.

Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

The act or process of converting metal into money.

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil…

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary…

Below the average size; very small; little.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.