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Paronomastic Witticism

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noun

• a humorous play on words

verb

• make a play on words

31%9 With witticism
adverb

• in a comical manner

31%5Witticism
noun

• a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

• a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

verb

• repeat a passage from

• name the price of

• refer to for illustration or proof

• put quote marks around

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