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acrostic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | word square |
| Type of | mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, teaser |
acrostic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | literary composition, literary work |
Examples of acrostic
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The acrostic quote is from a book of short stories, many of them involving food.
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The size of the acrostic puzzle is determined by the size of the magazine page.
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You spell out PROCESS as an acrostic and go through the seven components of process.
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I'm a dyed-in-the-wool paper solver, but I often make an exception for the acrostic.
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On average, how many acrostic clues would you say you get right off the bat?
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The Center for Disease Control has a nifty acrostic to help you have a safe Halloween.
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It was written in 1833 and was enriched with acrostic in the master sonnet.
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This week's acrostic quote is from a book about insomnia, not about Santa.
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It's good to be back on the successfully solved acrostic bandwagon again.
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- Word square: a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
- Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
- An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word or a message. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek u1F00u03BAu03C1u03BFu03C3u03C4u03B9u03C7u03AFu03C2, from Ancient Greek u1F04u03BAu03C1u03BFu03C2 "highest, topmost" and u03C3u03C4u03AFu03C7u03BFu03C2 "verse")...
- An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. ...
- (acrostically) In the manner of an acrostic
- (Acrostics) A popular Victorian parlour game similar to charades, in which players had to guess one word answers to acted-out clues. The first letters of these then spell out the final answer.
- Crossword puzzles or poem where the initial letters of each line form a word or words. An acrostic may also use the middle (mesostich) or final (telestich) letter of each line. Certain prose works use the first letter of each paragraph or sentence. ...
- A literary composition in which the first syllables of each line together spell out the name of the author, or another hidden message.
- A word, phrase, or passage spelled out vertically by the first letters of a group of lines in sequence. Sir John Davies' Hymnes of Astraea dedicates 26 acrostic poems to Elizabeth I. Edgar Allan Poe's "Enigma" provides another example. Samuel Johnson's great dictionary (1755) quotes John Dryden:
