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Puzzle given a couple of marks for wrong and right answers, we hear
Answer for the clue "Puzzle given a couple of marks for wrong and right answers, we hear ", 8 letters:
acrostic
Alternative clues for the word acrostic
- Psalm 119, e.g.
- Working actor's introductions to Independent's crossword puzzle
- Type of word puzzle
- Poem where first letters of lines spell a word
- Kind of quote puzzle
- Clever verse
- Verse where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase
- Diversion involving a quotation
- Angry for the most part being grabbed by a jerk? That's puzzling!
Word definitions for acrostic in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. 2 A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.
Usage examples of acrostic.
Togarmi, Abulafia freely sprinkled his texts with codes, acrostics, and number-letter puns to simultaneously befuddle his persecutors and communicate freely with knowledgeable Spanish mystics like Joseph Gikatilia, a respected member of his circle.
Kangaroo Island, and she asked me to write some double acrostics for the poor incurables.
In the end I prepared a book of charades and double acrostics, for the printing and binding of which Mrs.
You are right about the undead predilection for noms de plume, alter egos, secret identities, anagrams, and palindromes and acrostics.
In fact, the Prosthetic I have in mind is a rather old model, which is only good for Post-Modern Acrostic Haiku.
Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.
Writing questions and answers and acrostics to himself on the computer?
No wonder everyone in this place spoke in acrostics, never knowing when they might be overheard.
In that case he would have had to apply the notarikon to the temurah, to invent an acrostic to remember the word.