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elision
noun
(e-li-sion)
a deliberate act of omission
Synonyms:
exception
,
exclusion
,
elision
noun
(e-li-sion)
omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
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disjunction
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accentuation
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ingenuousness
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nabokovian
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apologia
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inexorability
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barbarisms
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lexicography
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staginess
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essentialism
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ineffectuality
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