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(AWAD, April 8-14, 1996) This week's theme was words about words.
Match each word with its correct definition below.

___ periphrasis
___ pleonasm
___ polysemous
___ sesquipedalian
___ tmesis
___ verbile
___ zeugma

a) separation of parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words (as what place soever for whatsoever place)

b) 1: having many syllables; 2: given to or characterized by the use of long words

c) marked by multiplicity of meaning

d) the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usu. in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one eg) Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -Groucho Marx

e) the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said) : redundancy

f) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression : circumlocution

g) one whose mental imagery consists of words

Answers below:

Answers:

f) periphrasis: use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression : circumlocution
e) pleonasm: the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said) : redundancy
c) polysemous: marked by multiplicity of meaning
b) sesquipedalian: 1: having many syllables; 2: given to or characterized by the use of long words
a) tmesis: separation of parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words (as what place soever for whatsoever place)
g) verbile: one whose mental imagery consists of words
d) zeugma:  the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usu. in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one eg) Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx

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