Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Expand Your Vocabulary: Verbiage

ver-bi-age [vur-bee-ij]
–NOUN

*the overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity

*the manner or style of expressing something in words; wording

*an excess of words for the purpose

*the use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words


synonyms: diffusion, long-windedness, redundancy, verbosity, chatter, diction, parlance, repetition, talk, wordiness, circumlocution.

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