Vocabulary Lessons By William Page North Carolina

[Ron Musgraves]

Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity , grandiloquence, garrulousness and logorrhea, informally verbal diarrhea) refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix and garrulous. Examples are the expressions "in the vicinity of" (which can be replaced with "near") and "in order to" (which can be replaced with "to"). The opposites of verbosity are plain language (or plain English) and laconism.

William will be using words in future posts here throughout 2013 to better our vocabulary so we can better talk to customers and possibly regulators.

Thanks William

 

[junker1]

I'll admit it, I had to look up verbosity.

 

[Scott Stone]

What, you mean I am not usually bad enough?

 

[Doug Rucker]

What, you mean I am not usually bad enough?

You would need your own BBS