A list of 50 words by maygra.
- galtinesswas added by maygra and appears on just this list
- catachresiswas added by maygra and appears on 120 lists
- fiatwas added by maygra and appears on 100 lists
- diatribewas added by maygra and appears on 246 lists
- verbalizewas added by maygra and appears on 15 lists
- citewas added by maygra and appears on 29 lists
- maledictionwas added by maygra and appears on 95 lists
- idiomwas added by maygra and appears on 78 lists
- exonymwas added by maygra and appears on 29 lists
- logomisiawas added by maygra and appears on 7 lists
- mummersetwas added by maygra and appears on just this list
- anaphorawas added by maygra and appears on 72 lists
- alliterationwas added by maygra and appears on 88 lists
- aposiopesiswas added by maygra and appears on 102 lists
- argotwas added by maygra and appears on 169 lists
- metaphorwas added by maygra and appears on 118 lists
- circumlocutionwas added by maygra and appears on 178 lists
- echolaliawas added by maygra and appears on 82 lists
- epithetwas added by maygra and appears on 177 lists
- glossolaliawas added by maygra and appears on 127 lists
- homonymwas added by maygra and appears on 47 lists
- homophonewas added by maygra and appears on 31 lists
- mondegreenwas added by maygra and appears on 137 lists
- nomicwas added by maygra and appears on 13 lists
- phonemewas added by maygra and appears on 41 lists
- similewas added by maygra and appears on 64 lists
- semanticswas added by maygra and appears on 58 lists
- syllepsiswas added by maygra and appears on 57 lists
- tmesiswas added by maygra and appears on 148 lists
- synecdochewas added by maygra and appears on 283 lists
- tropewas added by maygra and appears on 186 lists
- aphesiswas added by maygra and appears on 25 lists
- ablautwas added by maygra and appears on 23 lists
- verbivorewas added by maygra and appears on 24 lists
- verbosewas added by maygra and appears on 187 lists
- taciturnwas added by maygra and appears on 388 lists
- malapropismwas added by maygra and appears on 210 lists
- locutionwas added by maygra and appears on 48 lists
- concordancewas added by maygra and appears on 35 lists
- rhetoricwas added by maygra and appears on 179 lists
- neologismwas added by maygra and appears on 214 lists
- aphasiawas added by maygra and appears on 109 lists
- euphemismwas added by maygra and appears on 175 lists
- antonymwas added by maygra and appears on 39 lists
- Synonymwas added by maygra and appears on 30 lists
- sonnetwas added by maygra and appears on 56 lists
- monologuewas added by maygra and appears on 33 lists
- soliloquywas added by maygra and appears on 247 lists
- drabblewas added by maygra and appears on 20 lists
- stanzawas added by maygra and appears on 45 lists
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Term coined by author John Scalzi (http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004657.html) in reference to a previous post where he coined the John Galt Maneuver (http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003789.html)
December 7, 2006