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Definitions: Pall |
PallNoun1. A sudden numbing dread. 2. Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped. 3. Hanging cloth used as a blind. Verb1. Become less interesting or attractive. 2. Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal". 3. Cover with a pall. 4. Cause surfeit through excess, of something that was initially pleasing: "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite". 5. Cause to become flat, of beer or wine. 6. Lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer; "pall" is an obsolete word. 7. Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her". 8. Get tired of something or somebody. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you see a pall, denotes that you will have sorrow and misfortune. If you raise the pall from a corpse, you will doubtless soon mourn the death of one whom you love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Pall the covering thrown over a coffin, is the Latin pallium, a square piece of cloth used by the Romans to throw over their shoulders, or to cover them in bed; hence a coverlet. Pall, the long sweeping robe, is the Roman palla, worn only by princes and women of honest fame. This differed greatly from the pallium, which was worn by freemen and slaves, soldiers, and philosophers. "Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by." Milton: Il Peuseroso. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | PALL. A companion. One who generally accompanies another, or who commit robberies together. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: PallSynonyms: cerement (n), chill (n), curtain (n), drape (n), drapery (n), mantle (n), shroud (n), winding-clothes (n), winding-sheet (n), become flat (v), cloy (v), dash (v), daunt (v), die (v), dull (v), fatigue (v), frighten away (v), frighten off (v), jade (v), scare (v), scare away (v), scare off (v), tire (v), weary (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Canonicals | Noun: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole; fanon, fannel; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote, calotte; bands; capouch, amice; vagas, vakas, vakass; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; biretta; crosier; pastoral staff, thurifer; costume. |
Clothing | Cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma |
Dislike | Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall. |
Interment | Coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn. |
Physical Insensibility | Render insensible. Adjective: anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform. Noun: stupefy, stun. |
Satiety | Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil. |
Scepter | Toga, pall, mantle, robes of state, ermine, purple. |
Unsavoriness | Verb: be unpalatable. Adjective: sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach. |
Weariness | Pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pall |
| English words defined with "pall": Hearsecloth ♦ Mort cloth ♦ Pall Mall, Palled, Palling ♦ Underbearer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pall": 38577 ♦ Autolycus ♦ Cachecope Bell ♦ Hedge Lane ♦ Madstone ♦ pall bearer's palsy, pall of smoke ♦ smoke pall ♦ Tea ♦ Wayzgoose. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pall": Palla, Pallial, Palliament ♦ tarpaulin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pall" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (footstool, stool), Welsh (fail, failing, lack, lapse, mantle, tent). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Pall Bearer's Revue (1992) | |
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Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | The fatal Notes neglected fall, No creature heeds the treacherous call, For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | An unvaried pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A hand projected from below the pall, and hung towards the floor. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The pall had fallen on Ruthie and Winfield. |
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Economic History | Peru | On the other hand, recent outbreak of community protests against several of Peru's largest mining operations has cast a pall over the sector. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | Now, according to Stevens, the majority cast a pall over the credibility of judges, in this case state court judges as impartial guardians of the rule of law. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pall" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "Pall" is used about 165 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 45.45% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.24% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.48% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 165 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pall" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pall | Last name | 170 | 45,997 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Pall Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pall": be a pall bearer ♦ pall bearer ♦ pall bearer's palsy ♦ Pall Mall ♦ pall of smoke ♦ pall on ♦ pall upon ♦ smoke pall. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pall": pall-bearer, pall-bearers, Pall-mall. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pall | 122 |
pall filter | 70 |
pall mall | 54 |
pall corporation | 48 |
pall corp | 30 |
pall mall cigarette | 22 |
gelman pall | 15 |
pall aerospace | 15 |
pall times.com | 13 |
pall times | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pall"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Velenxë (foot-cloth, Maud, rug, woolen blanket, woolen cover), Velem, Re E Zezë (thundercloud), Ngopem (fill, make a pig of oneself, overfeed), Mbulesë (bonnet, cloth, clothes, clothing, coat, counterpane, cover, curtain, dustsheet, envelope, envelopment, folder, haircloth, hood, mantle, overcast, overlay, pod, seating, suffusion, throw, vesture), Humbet Lezet, Bajatet, Bëhem I Mërzitshëm (become foul, pall on). (various references) | |
Arabic | وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), شحب (be sickly, blanch, blemish, etiolation, fade, go white, pale, turn pale, wan), أصبح تافها (stale), أصبح ممل, أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), تابوت (ark of the covenant, casket, coffin), حجاب قاتم, بساط الرحمة, غطى (cap, coat, cover, encase, face, invest, line, litter, mantle, mask, mat, paper, plaster, roof, sheathe, sheet, shield, smolder, smoulder, tuck, wrap), فقد سحره, لبس الساقفة, نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revitalize, revive), نقاب العروس, معطف (capote, cloak, coat, greatcoat, jacket, mantle, overcoat, wrap), ملابس الحداد, كفن (enshroud, grave clothes, lay out, shroud, winding sheet), غطاء النعش. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Омръзвам, Обвивка (Hull, Tunica), Притъмнявам, Покров, Покривам С Покров, Покривам С Плащаница, Плащаница, Плащ, Мантия (Tunica), Затъмнявам, втръсвам се, омръзвам (bore, tire), 'тръсвам. (various references) | |
Czech | Pokrývka (blanket, counterpane, cover, coverlet, plaid, rug, spread), Pallium, Zvìtrat, Vyèichnout, Omrzet (weary). (various references) | |
Danish | roegtaeppe (pall of smoke, smoke pall), ligkistebærerparese (pall bearer's palsy). (various references) | |
Dutch | slippedragersverlamming (pall bearer's palsy), slippedragersparalysie (pall bearer's palsy), slippedragersparalyse (pall bearer's palsy), rooksluier (pall of smoke, smoke pall), lijkdragersparalysie (pall bearer's palsy), lijkdrage rsparalyse (pall bearer's palsy), lij kdragersverlamming (pall bearer's palsy). (various references) | |
Finnish | paarivaate. (various references) | |
French | Poêle (fry pan, frying pan, pan), Perdre Son Charme, Pallium (pallium), Voile, Manteau, Drap Mortuaire, Devenir Maigre, Affaiblir. (various references) | |
German | Bahrtuch. (various references) | |
Greek | ύεθυμαίνω, Σάβανο, Σαβανώνω, Ανοσταίνω, ίουράζω (Tucker). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ּעיף, ּ"יות ־שועמם, ּ"עשות פל, ְרי' ְבל, ׂטיפ" חור". (various references) | |
Hungarian | Takaró (blanket, coat, cover, envelope, mantle, overburden, rug, spread), Szemfedél (shroud). (various references) | |
Italian | Perdere Il Fascino, Drappo Funebre, Diventare Noioso, Coltre (blanket, nappe), Cappa (arrester, bowler, cap, cape, cloak, cope, cowl, extractor cowl, fume hood, hatch, hood, interceptor, Kappa, mantle). (various references) | |
Manx | marre vaaish, irree dree, coodagh carbyd, brat (apron, cloak, clot, coat, coating, cover, covering, curtain, film, layer, overgrowth, pinafore, sheet, standing crop, wrap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Perder O Interesse, Pano Mortuário, Pálio (baldachin, canopy), Tornar Insípido (flatten), Sem Cor (colorless, colourless, pale, pallidness, paly, pasty faced, tintless, wan, washy), Saturar (charge, cloy, glut, impregnate, sate, satiate, saturate, soak), Saciar (cloy, glut, indulge, palladium, sate, satiate, scunner, wreak), Mortalha (cerement, shroud, winding sheet), Enjoar (cloy, nauseate, sicken), Cortina De Fumaça (smokescreen), Cansar (bore, fatigue, irk, jade, outwear, overdo, overstrain, spend, tire, wear out, weary). (various references) | |
Romanian | Procovãţ, Vãl (cloud, cover, mantle, scale, veil, web), Se Sãtura, Nu Mai Prezenta Farmec, Nu Mai Avea Farmec, Mantie (cloak, cope, gown, robe, veil), Linţoliu (cerement, winding sheet), Giulgiu (cerement, shroud, veil, winding sheet), Fi Plin (brim, swim), Corporal (bodily, Corporal, corporeal, physical, substantial), Antimis, Acoperãmânt (cover, refuge, roof, shelter, veil), A-şi Pierde Farmecul. (various references) | |
Russian | Пресыщать, Покрывать, Покров На "робе, Покров, Пелена, Мантия, Насыщать, Затемнять, Завеса (Riddel), Надоедать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokrivač (blanket, carpet, cover, covering, integument, mantle, plaid, rug, spread, vesture), veo (veil), otupeti (deaden, grow numb, hebetate, pall on), mrtvački kovčeg, koprena (shroud), dosaditi (acerbate, annoy, be sick of, bother, irk, pester, vex). (various references) | |
Spanish | Perder Su Sabor, Palio (pallium), Paño Mortuorio, Saciar (assuage, glut, sate, satiate, surfeit), Féretro (bier, coffin), Empalagar (cloy, pall on, sicken), Cortina (blower, coulisse, curtain, screen, sheet, umbrella), Capa (band, beach mat, bed, blanket, Capa, cape, cappa magna, cloak, coat, coating, cope, course, domesticity, dust-cloak, fees, film, layer, leafage, manta, ply, seam, sheet, shell, sill, slick, stratum, varnish, wash, wrapper), Cansarse (tire, weary), Cansar (fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, overdrive, override, put off, strain, tire, tire out, try, wear down, weary). (various references) | |
Swedish | Bårtäcke. (various references) | |
Turkish | Yavanlaşmak, Usandırmak (bind, cloy, pall on, sicken), Tabut Örtüsü, Kolsuz Manto (mantle), Kasvetli Örtü, Kapalı Hava, Kabak Tadı Vermek (bore, pall on), Cenaze Þalı, Bıktırmak (cloy, crowd, disgust, do to death, give the willies, irk, pall on, sicken, tire, wearisome, weary). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Покривати, Покривало, Пересичувати, Затінювати, Завіса, Набридати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | m n phủ, áo khoác (cope, mantle, overall). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pallium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pall": palladia, palladic, palladium, palladiums, palladous, pallbearer, pallbearers, palled, pallet, palletise, palletised, palletises, palletising, palletization, palletizations, palletize, palletized, palletizer, palletizers, palletizes, palletizing, pallets, pallette, pallettes, pallia, pallial, palliasse, palliasses, palliate, palliated, palliates, palliating, palliation, palliations, palliative, palliatively, palliatives, palliator, palliators, pallid, pallidly, pallidness, pallidnesses, pallier, palliest, palling, pallium, palliums, pallor, pallors, palls, pally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pall": appall, spall. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pall": appalled, appalling, appallingly, appalls, archetypally, archiepiscopally, episcopally, hypallage, hypallages, municipally, oedipally, papally, principally, pulpally, sepalled, spallable, spallation, spallations, spalled, spaller, spallers, spalling, spalls. (additional references) | |
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"Pall" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apell, apl, aplly, apoll, lall, paal, padl, paill, Pailly, palf, palle, palolo, palu, papl, paql, parl, pbl, pcl, peall, pel, pell, Pelli, phal, Phall, pil, pilli, pillu, pjl, pla, plaq, pll, pmal, pnl, Prahl, pral, pwll. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pall" (pronounced pÄ"l) |
| 2 | -Ä" l | banal, cabal, caul, Dahl, Dol, doll, fall, loll, Moll, Nidal, reinstall, Sol. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-p" | |
-1 letter: all, alp, lap, pal. | |
-2 letters: al, la, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-p" | |
+1 letter: lapel, palls, pally, spall. | |
+2 letters: alphyl, apollo, appall, gallop, lapels, lapful, paella, paleal, palely, palled, pallet, pallia, pallid, pallor, palpal, phalli, pillar, plagal, plexal, plical, plural, psylla, pulpal, spalls, wallop. | |
+3 letters: alphyls, ampulla, aphylly, apollos, appalls, clypeal, gallops, lapeled, lapfuls, lapilli, paellas, pailful, palatal, pallets, pallial, pallier, palling, pallium, pallors, paludal, papally, papilla, patella, payroll, penally, perilla, phallic, phallus, pillage, pillars, pilular, pinball, pitfall, plainly, planula, playful, playlet, pleural, pliable, pliably, plugola, plurals, pluvial, pollack, pollard, psyllas, pullman, scallop, scalpel, shallop, spalled, spaller, wallops. | |
+4 letters: allopath, allotype, allotypy, allspice, alpinely, ampullae, ampullar, antipill, apically, apologal, appalled, appellee, appellor, ballpark, caliphal, calliope, callipee, calliper, collapse, culpable, culpably, epically, escallop, flagpole, flapless, gallipot, galloped, galloper, helpable, ladypalm, landslip, lapelled, lapillus, lapsable, lapsible, lipoidal, nauplial, pailfuls, paillard, pailsful, palatals, palatial, paleosol, palladia, palladic, pallette, palliate, pallidly, palliest, palliums, palmlike, palpable, palpably, paltrily, panelled, papillae, papillar, papillon, parallax, parallel, pastille, patellae, patellar, patellas, pavillon, payrolls, pedalled, peelable, pelagial, pellagra, pelletal, perillas, petalled, phallism, phallist, phyllary, pillaged, pillager, pillages, pillared, pinballs, pitfalls, placable, placably, placidly, plaguily, planless, planosol, plantlet, planulae, planular, plastral, plateful, platelet, playable, playbill, playgirl, playland, playless, playlets, playlike, playlist, pliantly, plowable, plowland, plugolas, plumular, plurally, pluvials, pollacks, pollards, pollical, pollinia, polygala, poolhall, postally, pratfall, preallot, prelegal, prunella, puffball, pullback, pullmans, pulpally, pulpital, pushball, scallops, scalpels, sepalled, shallops, skullcap, smallpox, spadille, spallers, spalling, spillage, spillway, spinally, spirally, spirilla, spitball, splenial, spurgall, taillamp, teleplay, trapball, volplane, walloped, walloper. | |
+5 letters: allograph, allomorph, allopaths, allopatry, allophane, allophone, allotrope, allotropy, allotypes, allotypic, allspices, alpenglow, altiplano, ampullary, aphyllies, appalling, appellant, appellate, appellees, appellors, ballparks, ballpoint, bipedally, blackpoll, calliopes, callipees, callipers, capillary, capitally, catchpoll, collapsed, collapses, epochally, escallops, flagpoles, flappable, flashlamp, gallipots, gallopade, gallopers, galloping, halophile, haplessly, haplology, hypallage, ladypalms, lampblack, lamplight, lampshell, landslips, laypeople, leadplant, liposomal, melphalan, oedipally, optically, optimally, paillards, paillette, painfully, palatable, palatably, palatally, paleosols, palladium, palladous, palletise, palletize, pallettes, palliasse, palliated, palliates, palliator, palmately, palpebral, panelling, papillary, papillate, papilloma, papillons, papillose, papillote, paralegal, parallels, parcelled, parlously, partially, pastilles, patrolled, patroller, pavillons, pedalling, pellagras, pellagrin, perorally, petallike, phallisms, phallists, phalluses, philately, phrasally, phyllodia, pilgarlic, pillagers, pillaging, pillaring, pivotally, placeable, placeless, placental, plaintful, planeload, planosols, plantable, plantlets, plantlike, plasmagel, plasmasol, plastisol, platefuls, platelets, platelike, platesful, plausible, plausibly, playbills, playfield, playfully, playgirls, playlands, playlists, pleadable, pleatless, plowlands, pluralism, pluralist, plurality, pluralize, polemical, political, pollarded, pollinate, pollutant, polygalas, polygonal, polytonal, poolhalls, popliteal, popularly, pratfalls, preallots, prothalli, prunellas, puffballs, pullbacks, pullulate, pulsatile, punchball, pupillage, pupillary, pushballs, rappelled, repellant, sailplane, sapodilla, scalloped, scalloper, skullcaps, sleepwalk, soleplate, sopapilla, spadilles, spallable, spatially, specially, speedball, spillable, spillages, spillways, spiralled, spitballs, splashily, spoilable, spurgalls, stoopball, taillamps, tailplane, teleplays, topically, trapballs, typically, volplaned, volplanes, wallopers, walloping, wallpaper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50677878 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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