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acrostic

noun as in puzzle

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I dabble in humor contests, cryptic crosswords, and acrostics.

You learn about the origins of jigsaw puzzles, acrostics and Archimedes boxes.

It would seem to be impossible to doubt her identity after the acrostic of the Amorosa Visione.

Each column is an acrostic of the name Martinvs Luthervs, making 80 scurrilous epithets.

The Acrostic and the Chronogram are both ingeniously described in the mock epic of the Scribleriad.

Neither the acrostic nor the Alexandrine has the property assigned to it here.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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