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ambage
noun
(am-bage)
ambiguity, circumlocution —usually used in plural
ambage
noun
(am-bage)
indirect ways or proceedings
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circumlocutional
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circumlocution
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circumlocutious
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periphrase
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circumlocutionary
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circumbendibus
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rhetorical device
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brachyology
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hyperbaton
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expressive style
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figure of speech
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set phrase
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brachylogy
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noun phrase
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perissology
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hysteron proteron
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sesquipedality
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aposiopesis
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euphemism
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content word
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laconism
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function word
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verb phrase
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orthotone
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amphilogy
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parelcon
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jargonize
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obsoletism
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apocope
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hypallage
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sesquipedalianism
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tralation
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ambiguity
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dorism
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archaism
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phraseology
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monosemy
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polyseme
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extradictionary
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subjunction
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agnomination
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equivocalness
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locution
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apocopation
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amphibological
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epanadiplosis
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autological
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obscureness
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word form
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adposition
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unclearness
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verbality
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cockneyism
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cacoepy
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relative clause
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ecthlipsis
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phrase
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idiomatical
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major form class
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adnominal
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euphuist
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reflexive verb
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tushery
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jargon
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hispanism
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predeterminer
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anacoluthic
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verbify
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illocution
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conversationism
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prepositional phrase
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gadzookery
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briticism
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split infinitive
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paronym
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nounize
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verbal noun
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common noun
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verbalist
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equivocation
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paradiastole
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demonstrative pronoun
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doublespeak
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prepositive
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direct speech
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anacoluthia
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grammatical
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honorificabilitudinitatibus
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phrasal verb
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idiom
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indirectness
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colloquial
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
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iotacism
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