mne·mon·ic

- adj.
1. relating to, assisting, or intended to assist the memory.
- noun
2. a device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering.

cop·u·la

– noun
1. something that connects or links together.
2. a verb that serves as a connecting link or establishes an identity between subject and complement.
3. a word or set of words that acts as a connecting link between the subject and predicate of a proposition.

pred·i·cate

– verb
1. to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
2. to affirm or assert something of the subject of a proposition.
3. to connote; imply.
4. to found or derive; base.
5. to make an affirmation or assertion.
–noun
6. a syntactic unit that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence, the other being the subject, and that consists of a verb, which in English may agree with the subject in number, and of all the words governed by the verb or modifying it, the whole often expressing the action performed by or the state attributed to the subject, as is here in Larry is here.
7. that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject of a proposition.

prop·o·si·tion

– noun
1. the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
2. a plan or scheme proposed.
3. an offer of terms for a transaction.
4. a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered.
5. anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
6. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
7. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
8. a formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.