Norman Lewis - Various speech habits.

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  1. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  2. laconic
    brief and to the point
  3. inarticulate
    without or deprived of the use of speech or words
  4. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  5. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  6. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  7. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  8. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  9. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  10. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  11. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  12. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  13. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  14. soliloquise
    talk to oneself
  15. ventriloquist
    a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
  16. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  17. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  18. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  19. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  20. eloquent
    expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
  21. magniloquent
    lofty in style
  22. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  23. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  24. magnate
    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
  25. magnitude
    the property of relative size or extent
  26. magnum
    a large wine bottle for liquor or wine
  27. magnum opus
    a creator's greatest work of art or literature
  28. verbatim
    using exactly the same words
  29. verbal
    of or relating to or formed from words in general
  30. verbiage
    overabundance of words
  31. revolve
    turn on or around an axis or a center
  32. revolution
    a single complete turn
  33. involve
    contain as a part
  34. evolve
    undergo development
  35. ventral
    toward or on or near the belly
  36. ventricle
    a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium
  37. auricular
    relating to, perceived by, or shaped like the ears
  38. vehicular
    relating to or intended for motor transport
  39. cuticular
    of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula
  40. vesicular
    of or relating to or involving vesicles
  41. testicular
    of or involving the testes
  42. avuncular
    being or relating to an uncle
  43. dorsal
    on or near the back of an animal or organ
  44. endorse
    approve of
  45. endorsement
    the act of approving
  46. somniferous
    sleep inducing
  47. insomnia
    an inability to sleep
  48. somnambulist
    someone who walks about in their sleep
  49. ambulatory
    able to walk about
  50. pram
    a baby carriage with four wheels
  51. perambulator
    a small wheeled vehicle in which a baby is pushed around
  52. amble
    walk leisurely
  53. preamble
    a preliminary introduction, as to a statute or constitution
  54. soporific
    inducing sleep
  55. articulate
    express or state clearly
  56. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Created on Tue Jun 26 02:42:35 EDT 2012

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