Synonyms

contortions

[kuhn-tawr-shuhn]

con·tor·tion

[kuhn-tawr-shuhn]
noun
1.
the act or process of contorting.
2.
the state of being contorted.
3.
a contorted position.
4.
something contorted or twisted, as in position or meaning: His account of the incident was a complete contortion of fact.

Origin:
1605–15; < Latin contortiōn- (stem of contortiō) a whirling around. See contort, -ion

con·tor·tion·al, adjective
con·tor·tioned, adjective
un·con·tor·tioned, adjective
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Contortions is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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