apposition

noun phrase

Multi-word noun construction

• renamingGiving new designation
• restatementRewording of something said
• equivalenceState of being equal

nonrestrictive · restrictive · parenthetical · commas · juxtaposition · syntax · modifier · clause · antecedent · specification

adjacency

State of being beside

• proximityNearness in space
• contiguityState of touching directly
• placementPutting somewhere specific

positioning · pairing · conjunction · alignment · neighboring · side-by-side · collocation · abutment · parallelism · sequence

epithet

Descriptive tag for someone

• titleFormal honorific or name
• designationFormal name or title
• aliasAdopted false name

appellation · nickname · byname · sobriquet · moniker · descriptor · identifier · label · renaming · attribution

clarification

Making meaning plain

• elaborationDevelopment through detail
• specificationDetailed technical requirement
• amplificationIncrease in intensity

restatement · explication · definition · illustration · expansion · emphasis · identification · description · annotation · gloss

growth

Increase in size

• contactCommunication or physical touch
• layeringForming successive strata
• accretionGrowth through external addition

cell wall · thickening

• grammar termsnoun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun
• noun grammarnoun, noun phrase, case, declension, noun clause
• Old English poetryalliteration, Beowulf, kenning, caesura, kennings
• contrastsopposites, antithesis, polarity, dichotomy, duality
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