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Abbreviations - anon - anonymous ; ms - manuscript ; M.C. - Master of Ceremonies ; R.A. - Royal Academy ; VIP. - very important person.
Adjectives from nouns - adventure-adventurous ; angel-angelic ; character-characteristic ; courage-courageous ; devil-devilish ; fable-fabulous ; fiction-fictitious ; hero-heroic ; history-historical ; music-musical ; tragedy-tragic.
Adjectives Proper - Dickens-Dickensian ; Shaw-Shavian ; Pharaoh-Pharonic ; Elizabeth-Elizabethan ; Victoria-Victorian.
Anagrams - angel-angle ; cadet-acted ; credit-direct ; bolster-lobster ; created-catered ; dame-made ; devil-lived ; oyster-storey ; singer-reigns ; stage-gates ; wrote-tower .
Buildings and Rooms - ante-room, boudoir, chalet, inn, palace, theatre.
Collective Nouns - company of actors, host of angels, library of books, troupe of dancers, bouquet of flowers, bevy of ladies, band of musicians, anthology of poems, choir of singers.
Diminutives - brooklet, novelette, rivulet, streamlet, sapling.
Doers of actions - actor, dictator, guard, inhabitant, narrator.
Foreign words and phrases - addendum, ad lib, al fresco, bon mot, bon voyage, coup de grace, exeunt, faux pas, incognito, pas de deux, prima donna, tout ensemble, viva voce.
Group Names - headwear, languages, nicknames, precious stones.
Homes - embassy, palace, castle.
Homonyms - air/heir ; canvas/canvass ; censer/censor ; maid/made ; principal/principle ; right/wright/write ; scene/seen ; throne/thrown.
Idioms - to give oneself airs, to make a clean breast of it, to show one's colours, to throw down the gauntlet, to laugh up one's sleeve, to read between the lines, to mind one's ps and qs, to blow one's trumpet.
Nicknames - Bard of Avon, Black Flag, Fair Sex, Forty winks, John Bull, King of the Forest, Old Nick, Swan of Avon.
Occupations - acrobat, artist, cartographer, cartoonist, conjurer, dramatist, mannequin, novelist, playwright, ventriloquist
Payments - bounty, levy, ransom, reward, royalty.
People - accomplice, autocrat, bandit, castaway, charaltan, ignoramus, imposter, jester, orator, tyrant, vagabond, wiseacre. wizard.