560. Language -- N. language; phraseology &c 569; speech &c 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c 563.
561. Letter -- N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c (writing) 590; type &c (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC , abecedary , christcross-row.
562. Word -- N. word, term, vocable; name &c 564; phrase &c 566; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c (grammar) 567; ideophone .
563. Neologism -- N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym ; barbarism.
564. Nomenclature -- N. nomenclature; naming &c v.; nuncupation , nomination, baptism; orismology ; onomatopoeia; antonomasia .
565. Misnomer -- N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.] ; Mrs.
566. Phrase -- N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence, paragraph; figure of speech &c 521; idiom, idiotism ; turn of expression; style.
567. Grammar -- N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive ; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi [Lat.] ; Lindley Murray &c (schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c (language) 560.
568. Solecism -- N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae [Lat.] ; slipslop ; bull; barbarism, impropriety.
569. Style -- N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language &c (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire [Fr.] .
570. Perspicuity -- N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c (intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c (manifestation) 525; definiteness, definition; exactness &c 494; explicitness, lucidness.
571. Obscurity -- N. obscurity &c (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words; ambiguity &c 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness &c 475, inexactness &c 495; what d'ye call 'em &c (neologism) 563 [Obs.]; darkness of meaning.
572. Conciseness -- N. conciseness &c adj.; brevity, the soul of wit, laconism ; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c (shortening) 201; compression &c 195; epitome &c 596; monostich ; brunch word, portmanteau word.
573. Diffuseness -- N. diffuseness &c adj.; amplification &c v.; dilating &c v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.] ; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584; looseness.
574. Vigor -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c adj.; intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity.
575. Feebleness -- N. feebleness &c adj..
576. Plainness -- N. plainness &c adj.; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
577. Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c .
578. Elegance -- N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c adj.; concinnity , euphony, numerosity ; Atticism , classicalism , classicism.
579. Inelegance -- N. inelegance; stiffness &c adj.; unlettered Muse [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c 563; solecism &c 568; mannerism &c (affectation) 855; euphuism ; fustian &c 577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism .
580. Voice -- N. voice; vocality ; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice &c (loud) 404; musical voice &c 413; intonation; tone of voice &c (sound) 402.
581. Aphony -- N. aphony , aphonia ; dumbness &c adj.; obmutescence ; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony ; cacoepy ; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; raucity ; harsh voice &c 410, unmusical voice &c 414; falsetto, childish treble mute; dummy.
582. Speech -- N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation , oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering -- N. inarticulateness; stammering &c v.; hesitation &c v.; impediment in one's speech; titubancy , traulism ; whisper &c (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl, tardiloquence ; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c (want of voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
584. Loquacity -- N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c adj.; garrulity; multiloquence , much speaking.
585. Taciturnity -- N. silence, muteness, obmutescence ; taciturnity, pauciloquy , costiveness , curtness; reserve, reticence &c (concealment) 528.
586. Allocution -- N. allocution, alloquy , address; speech &c 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.
588. Conversation -- N. conversation, interlocution; collocution , colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.
589. Soliloquy -- N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology .
590. Writing -- N. writing &c v.; chirography, stelography , cerography ; penmanship, craftmanship ; quill driving; typewriting.
591. Printing -- N. printing; block printing, type-printing; plate printing &c 558 (engraving); the press &c (publication) 531; composition.
592. Correspondence -- N. correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty , letter card, picture post card; postal [U.S.] , card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription ; post &c (messenger) 534.
593. Book -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule ; tract, tractate ; livret ; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion , circular, publication; chap book.
594. Description -- N. description, account, statement, report; expose &c (disclosure) 529; specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief &c (abstract) 596; return &c (record) 551; catalogue raisonne &c (list) 86 [Fr.]; guidebook &c (information) 527.
595. Dissertation -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate , tractation ; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect ; excursus.
596. Compendium -- N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo [Lat.] , analysis, pandect , digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.
597. Poetry -- N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon , Pierides, Pierian spring.
598. Prose -- N. prose, prose writer.
599. The Drama -- N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus , Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.