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Parenthesis

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digressionnounAn aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
asidenounTo or on one side so as to be out of the way.
divagationnounStraying off from a course or way.
excursusnounA narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.

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excursusnounA narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.
asidenounAn incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
digressionnounAn aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
divagationnounStraying off from a course or way.
notenounA symbol or annotation.
interludenounAn entertainment between the acts of a play.
passingnounThe fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
bracketnounA fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
interruptionnounThe act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
hiatusnounAn interruption, break, pause or absence.
breaknounAn instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
impassenoun(figurative) A deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made.
bracketsnounA fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
pausenounA temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
paranoun(medicine) A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
paragraphnounA passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
postmodifiernoun(grammar) A modifier placed after the head of the phrase.
premodifiernoun(grammar) A modifier placed before the head of the phrase.
prolepsisnoun(rhetoric) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
prependnounThe act of prepending.

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