Utahs

Utahs

1. Plural form of Utah.

illuminate

to illuminate (third-person singular simple present illuminates, present participle illuminating, simple past and past participle illuminated)

1. (transitive) to shine light on something
2. (transitive) to decorate something with lights
3. (transitive) to clarify or make something understandable
4. (transitive) to decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs
5. (intransitive) to glow
6. (intransitive) to be exposed to light

anamonic

anamonic (plural anamonics)

1. A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.

   For example, the DAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The given anamonic is PRIZED GALS. — Andrew Fisher and David Webb, The Art of Scrabble (2004)

abstractum (plural abstracta)

(philosophy) Something which is abstract or exists abstractly

concretum

concretum (plural concreta)

(philosophy) Something that is concrete, rather than abstract

alphagram

alphagram (plural alphagrams)

1. The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged into alphabetical order.

   The alphagram of the word alphabetical is AAABCEHILLPT.

ploce

Etymology

From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (ploke), “‘complication’”).

Noun

Singular ploce

Plural ploces

ploce (plural ploces)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.

   Examples:

   "In that great victory, Caesar was Caesar!"

   "Make war upon themselves - brother to brother / Blood to blood, self against self." - Richard III, by Shakespeare

   "Let the staff be staff, and let Reagan be Reagan."