| 单词 | acrostic |
| 释义 | acrostic (once / 17721 pages) n Remember writing poems as a kid in which you wrote a word vertically down the page and started each line with one of the letters in that word? That was an acrostic poem. A word that WORD FAMILYCan be spelled so that it Reads from top to bottom Or across, as a poem Sometimes is very clever. That's an acrostic poem. It can also refer to a puzzle. Cool. Isn't it? acrostic: acrostics USAGE EXAMPLESThe Friedmans did, however, provide an enigmatic message about the manuscript in an article in Philogical Quarterly, “Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer,” published in 1959. The New Yorker(Nov 30, 2016) Anchoring the program is Unsuk Chin’s zany “Acrostic Wordplay,” which includes texts by Lewis Carroll. New York Times(May 26, 2016) Still running — deadline Monday night, April 11: our acrostic/backronym contest for movies, books, etc. Washington Post(Apr 05, 2016) 1n verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message Hyper literary composition, literary work imaginative or creative writing 2n a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across Syn|Hyper word square mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, teaser a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution |
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