Chapter 10 Flashcards by Alex Sorce | Brainscape

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Laconic

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Saying little, meaning a lots

Laconia–>concise

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Inarticulate

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When the words just don’t happen

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Garrulous

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Much talk, little sense, yes

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Banal

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Unoriginal

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Verbose

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They never shut up

Verbum–>word

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Voluble

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Very Rapid talkers

Volvo–>to roll

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Cogent

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Words that can convince

Cogo–>to compel

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Vociferous

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Talk loud, sound loud, much force

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Loquacious

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THEY TALKS A LOT

Loquor–>to speak

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Tacit

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Unspoken/unsaid

Taceo–>to be silent

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Taceo

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To be silent

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Reticent

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One who prefers to keep quiet

Taceo–>to be silent

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Loquor

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To speak

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Soliloquy

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A speech to ones self

Solus–>alones; loquor–>to speak

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Ventriloquist

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One who can “throw” his voice

Ventris–>belly; loquor–>to speak

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Colloquial

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Informal with less grammar speaks

Con; loquor–>to speak

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Circumlocution

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Expressing an idea indirectly

Circum–>around; loquor–>to speak

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Laconia

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Concise

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Cogo

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To drive, to force, to compel

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Taciturn

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Say little and listen little(Norman)

Taceo–>to be silent

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Eloquent

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Someone who speaks out emotionally

Ex–>out; loquor–> to speak

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Magniloquent/grandiquolent

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Uses big words

Magnus–>large; grandis–>grand; loquor–>to speak

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Verbum

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Word

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Volvo

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To roll

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Garrio

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To chatter

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Verbiage

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Excess use of words -or- style of using words