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- n. a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
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Collected Words - List 2
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gasconade, zaccheus, spoor, precentor, bombazine, otiose, khamsin, bruited, viva voce, whilom, lenitive, ebullition and 244 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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BonMots
assiduous, progeny, hegemony, nascent, reticent, ephemera, zeitgeist, recalcitrant, copious, corporeal, cacaphonous, obstreperous and 108 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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bobfet1's Words
anathema, schadenfreude, sturm und drang, dadaism, serendipitous, obfuscate, kibosh, salacious, misogyny, kismet, madrasah, circumlocute and 129 more...
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researchgirl's Words
palpable, vade mecum, penumbra, ephemera, esoteric, quirky, quintessential, aphorism, amnesia, insomnia, synesthesia, apostasy and 186 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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Bibliophilia
codex, matrix, patrix, caesura, incunabulum, syllabic, pictograph, scribe, vernacular, iambic, trochaic, pentameter and 36 more...
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X-Files
Words that i associate with the X-Files. either as episode titles or through the fandom and atxf. Suggestions welcome!
lone gunmen, epistaxis, homoerotic, quagmire, enigmatic, epiphany, surly, syzygy, anomaly, bee, tasty, psychopath and 31 more...
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philology at its best
philology, philolphile, zeitgeist, slicker, wherewithal, auteur, lovelorn, oeuvre, gastronomy, wanderlust, ephemeron, star-crossed and 48 more...
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French
fin de siecle, gauche, arriviste, roman a clef, dernier cri, gasconnade, bete noire, décolletage, rapporteur, joie de vivre, carte blanche, cause célèbre and 28 more...
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Her Lovely Lexicon
defenestrate, epicene, quixotic, sybarite, encomium, sturm and drang, ablution, aeolian, aesthete, ethereal, zeitgeist, polyphony and 72 more...
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bookish
grimoire, bildungsroman, roman a clef, chapbook, picaresque, codicology, epistolary, colophon, manuscript, memoir, incunabulum, bibliomaniac and 47 more...
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