vocab lesson 8
vocab lesson 8
Terms
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- verbose
- wordy, using excessive words
- referring to legal proceedings or formal debate or rhetoric
- forensic
- linguist
- a person who speaks several languages; a polyglot
- applause; enthusiastic approval
- acclamation
- a loud outcry; especially in protest
- clamor
- locution
- a word or expression; phraseology
- circumlocution
- the use of many words when few would do
- unfamiliar language; a dialect or special jargon
- lingo
- verbatim
- word for word, exactly the same words
- loquacious
- very talkative
- to speak loudly or passionatly
- declaim
- the central square or marketplace of a Roman City.
- forum
- proverbial
- of or like a wise or witty folksaying
- a language used by people who do not speak a common tongue; usually combines aspects of diffferent languages
- lingua franca
- colloquium
- a meeting for discussion, especially in an academic setting