Associations to the word «Acrostic»

Wiktionary

ACROSTIC, noun. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
ACROSTIC, noun. A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

Dictionary definition

ACROSTIC, noun. A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across.
ACROSTIC, noun. Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King