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| Bombastic | Using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others. Adjective "Luke's speech was so bombastic; was he speaking to communicate or simply to show off?" |
| Circumlocution | Speaking in circles; roundabout speech. Noun "Circumlocution is commonly called beating around the bush." |
| Colloquial | Pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational. Adjective "Two examples of colloquial greetings are "Hey, dude, how's it going?" and "What's up, man?" |
| Diffuse | Spread out, not concise; wordy. Adjective "A diffuse argument won't convince the class to vote for me." |
| Digress | To wander off from the subject or topic spoken about. Verb "Mr. Helms habitually digresses from the point of the lesson" |
| Eloquence | Artful ease with speaking;speech that can influence people's feelings. Noun "Even the most eloquent graduation speeches are quickly forgotten" |
| Garrulous | Talkative; loquacious. Adjective "Garrulous gatherings of students are unwelcome in a library that values silence." |
| Grandiloquent | Using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others. Adjective "Instead of grandiloquence", cautioned the teacher, "use plain language" |
| Loquacious | Very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous. Adjective "The loquacious audience grew quiet when the movie started" |
| Prattle | To speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly. Verb "The prattle of freshman resounded through the cafeteria" |
| Ramble | To talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction. Verb "Rambling on and on, Harold lost his audience's attention; his listeners had no idea what he was talking about." |
| Rant | To talk very loudly, even wildly; rave. Verb "Because the speaker ranted on and on, the audience stopped listening after a while." |
| Rhetorical | Relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression. Adjective "The speech of politicians is often thick with rhetoric." |
| Verbose | Using too many words; wordy; long-winded. Adjective "The teacher asked Brenda to cut her verbose speech from 40 to 15 minutes." |
| Voluble | Talking a great deal with ease; glib. Adjective "Victor is such a voluble speaker that it takes him a half hour to answer a simple question." |
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