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eloquent
- adj - well spoken
- syn - articulate, fluent
- ant- inarticulate
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loquacious
- adj - very talkative
- syn - garrulous, voluble
- ant - laconic, taciturn, reticent
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circumlocution
- n - evasive speach, talk around a subject
- syn - evasion
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colloquial
adj - conversational, using everyday language
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grandiloquent
- adj - speaking in pompous manner
- syn- pontifical, portentous
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elocution
n - expressive delivery of public speech
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garrulous
- adj - talkative
- syn - loquacious, voluble
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pontificate
- v - to speak pompously
- syn - declaim, sermonize, dogmatize
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verbose
- adj - wordy
- syn - prolix, discursive, digressive
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verbatim
adv - word for word
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ineffable
adj - unable to be expressed in words
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tangential
- adj - only superficially relevant; off-topic
- syn - irrelevant, incidental, immaterial
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tout
- v - to promote or praise energetically
- syn - acclaim, herald, laud
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anecdote
n - a short and often humourous story
(not to be confused with antidote (n) - a remedy)
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discursive
- adj - straying from the topic
- syn - digressive, desultory
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immutable
- adj - unchangeable
- syn - permanent, inveterate
- ant- mutable, protean, vacillating, mercurial
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metamorphosis
- n - a tranformation
- syn - transformation, mutation, transmogrification
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rupture
- v - to break open
- syn - burst, fissure, cleave
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transmute
- v - to transform
- syn - metamorphose, alter, transmogrify
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amorphous
- adj - lacking shape, changeable in form
- syn - shapeless, nebulous, vague, nondescript
- ant - crystalline
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mercurial
- adj - erratic; subject to wild changes in character
- syn - fickle, capricious, vacillating
- ant - immutable, stable
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protean
- adj - capable of assuming different forms
- syn - polymourphous, labile
- ant - immutable, stable
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mutate
- v - to change form
- syn - transform, transmogrify
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fickle
- adj - likely to change opinion unpredictably
- syn - capricious, vacillating, mercurial
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fluctuate
- v - to vary irregularly
- syn - vacillate, waver
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vacillate
- v - to change one's mind repeatedly
- syn - fluctuate, waver
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revamp
- v - to revise; to renovate
- syn - refurbish, renovate
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amend
- v - to improve; to remove the faults of
- syn - rectify, redress, ameliorate, mitigate
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sanguine
- adj - cheerfully optimistic
- syn - blithe, buoyant
- ant - morose, forlorn, melancholy, sullen
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phlegmatic
- adj - sluggish
- syn - languorous, lethargic, somnolent, torpid
- ant- vigorous, vibrant, hale, spry
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melancholy
- adj - sad, depressed
- syn - morose, despondent, disconsolate, sullen
- ant - blithe, buoyant, sanguine
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choleric
- adj - easily angered
- syn - irascible, fractious, bilious, splenetic
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recalcitrant
- adj - stubbornly resistent to authority
- syn - refractory, intractable
- ant- compliant, docile, tractable, obsequious, obeisant
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lethargic
- adj - sluggish, dully apathetic
- syn - languourous, phlegmatic, torpid
- ant- vigorous, vibrant, hale, spry
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splenetic
- adj - irritable, easily angered
- syn - bilious, choleric
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querulous
- adj - disposed to complaining
- syn - peevish, captious, carping, caviling
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dolorous
- adj - marked by or expressive of sorrow or pain
- syn- lugubrious, doleful
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animosity
- n - hostility; ill-will
- syn- malevolence, antagonism, invidiousness
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pussillanimous
- adj - cowardly
- syn - timorous, craven, dastardly
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lassitude
- n - feeling of weakness or listlessness
- syn - lethargy, languour, torpor, stupor
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