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Apostrophectomy

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apostrophizationnounThe use of apostrophe characters.
apostrophationnoun(rare) The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
apostrophenoun(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
aphoresisnounMisspelling of apheresis. [(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.]
aversionoun(rhetoric) Apostrophe.
aphaeresisnoun(UK, Canada) Alternative spelling of apheresis. [(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.]
aphæresisnoun(chiefly archaic) Alternative form of apheresis. [(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.]
apostilnounA method of verification for international documents.
aphetismnounAphesis.
antiptosisnoun(grammar, rhetoric) Substitution of one grammatical case for another.
apocarpynounThe quality of being apocarpous.
arthroprothesisnounMisspelling of orthoprosthesis. [An orthodontic prosthesis]
hypostrophenoun(rhetoric) The use of insertion or parenthesis.
haplologynoun(phonology, uncountable) The process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
anaptyxisnoun(phonetics) The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel.
procopenoun(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Synonym of apheresis.
aptonymynounThe state of being an aptonym.
aphorisernounAn aphorist.
abominationoun(rhetoric) Bdelygmia.
apoticarynounObsolete form of apothecary. [(archaic in US, dated in UK) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.]

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