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Language gives us the manner in which to communicate and is the foundation of engaging in life and the world around you. Communication is a learned skill and our use of it is unique to us all. We learn from our caregivers, our interaction with the public and from education. Storytellers learn to observe others in order to add different perspectives to different characters.
AMANUENSIS - a person tasked with taking dictation.

AMPHIBOLOGY - a sentence or phrase (such as "nothing is good enough for you") that can be interpreted in more than one way. From the Greek ‘amphibolos’ via Late Latin, from ‘amphi’ meaning “both" and ‘ballein’ meaning “to throw,” Amphibology literally means "encompassing" or "hitting at both ends" and figuratively it means "ambiguous."

AMPHIGORY - a nonsense verse or composition or a rigmarole with apparent meaning which proves to be meaningless.

ANATHEMATIZE - to curse or condemn.

ANIMADVERSION - an unfavorable or censorious comment.

APODICTIC - an issue clearly established or beyond dispute.

APOSIOPESIS - a sudden break away from a speech in the middle of a sentence as if unable to proceed.

ARGUFY - argue or quarrel about trivial matters.

ARGY-BARGY - a vigorous and heated discussion or dispute.

ASSEVERATE - to declare earnestly or solemnly; to affirm positively.

ATTICISM - concise and elegant expression.

BAFFLEGAB - confusing or unintelligible use of jargon.

BLANDISHMENT - a speech or action that is meant to coax, entice or persuade.

BLATHERSKITE - a person given to empty talk.

BON MOT - a witty remark or comment; clever saying or witticism.

BRAVADO - a bold manner in speech and actions meant to impress or intimidate.

BRICKBAT - an unkind or unfavorable remark; caustic criticism.

BURBLE - to speak in a highly excited manner.

CALUMNIATE - to make false and malicious statements.

CARRIWITCHET: an absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness. Example: If a bushel of apples cost ten dollars, how long will it take for a lobster to eat its way through a bar of soap?

CATASTROPHIZE - to talk about an issue or event as worse than it actually is.

CATACHRESIS - use of the wrong word for the context. Also use of a forced and especially paradoxical figure of speech (as blind mouths)

CAVIL - to raise irritating and trivial objections.

CHARIENTISM - an artfully veiled insult.

CLAPTRAP - stupid or silly talks; conversations that are nonsensical or absurd.

COLLOGUE - to confer in secret.

COLLOQUY - a high-level serious discussion
concordance - an alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word.

CONCILIATE - to overcome hostility or to win others over and bring them to your point of view.

CONCORD - an agreement, consensus or harmony between groups and people.

COZE - a friendly, informal chat. Other synonyms like this: CONFABULATE

DEIPNOSOPHIST - someone highly skilled in the art of small talk.

DESULTORY- randomly digressing from the main point or topic.

DIFFUSE - being at once verbose and ill-organized

DONNYBROOK - a wild brawl, contentious dispute or a free for all.

EXEGISIS - interpretation of a word

EXCORIATE - to verbally denounce or berate someone severely.

EXPATIATE - to speak or write at length (used with on or upon)

EXPOSTULATE - to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has already done; to remonstrate.

FAWNING - praising someone too much by over exaggerating affection or admiration with the intention of gaining something of value.

FOOFARAW - a great fuss or disturbance about something insignificant.

FOOTLE - to talk in a foolish or silly way.

GAINSAY - to deny, dispute or contradict.

GAPESEED - a person who gapes or stares at you in wonder during an interaction.

GARRULOUS - excessive talkativeness; implies rambling, or tedious loquacity. It is most often used for tedious, rambling talkers.

GESTICULATE - to use gestures instead of speech for emphasis.

GLOZE - to make excuses.

GRANDILOQUENCE - language that is lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic in style. It is one of several English words that pertains to speech that derive from the Latin ‘loqui’ meaning "to speak." Others include "eloquent" ("marked by fluent expression"), "loquacious" ("full of excessive talk"), and "soliloquy" ("a long dramatic monologue"). Grandiloquence, probably Middle French, comes from the Latin adjective ‘grandiloquus’ which combines "loqui" and the adjective ‘grandis,’ meaning “grand or great.”
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GRAWLIX - symbols like !#%@ used to communicate profanity in an online post or message. It was first used to indicate swearing in comic books.

HISTRIONICS - a deliberate display of excessive emotions to achieve a certain effect. Attention seeking dramatics.

HOLOGRAOH - document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.

HOLOPHRASIS - the expression of several ideas in a single word or phrase.

HORTATORY - urging someone in a course of action; encouraging.

ICONOCLASTIC - attacking beliefs or cherished traditions based on error, bias, superstition or lack of creativity.

IGNIS FATUUS - something said that is deluding or misleading.

INCULCATE - to embed information by repeated statement or admonition; teaching earnestly.

INTRANSIGENT - refusing to compromise, inflexible or rigid in opinion.

INVEIGLE - to entice, lure or ensnare by flattery or artful talk.

JEREMIAD: a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes; or angry tirade. In modern times it would be a long ass hissy fit. From ecclesiastical Latin Jeremias, referencing Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

LINGUA FRANCA - any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.

LINGUIST - person who is skilled in several languages; polyglot.

LOCUTION - manner of speech or phrase

LOQUACIOUS - generally suggests the power to express oneself fluently, articulately, or glibly, but it can also mean "talking excessively." Poets quickly adapted loquacious and stretched its meaning to reference the chattering of birds and the babbling of brooks. The ultimate source of all this chattiness is ‘loqui’ a Latin verb meaning "to speak." Other words derived from loqui include colloquial, eloquent, soliloquy, and ventriloquism.

MACARONIC - conversation composed of a mixture of languages.

MALAPROPISM - the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context

MEGALOPHONOUS - having a high voice

MORDANT - biting or sarcastic in manner.

MUSSITATION - muttering, mumbling, murmuring.

MYTHOMANE - a person with a strong propensity for fantasizing, lying or exaggerating.

NATTER - a social conversation that does not contain much valuable insight.

NEOLOGIST - coiner of words

OBJURGATE - to reproach or renounce vehemently.

OBSTREPEROUS- noisy and difficult to control - like a crowd or a conference room full of energized employees.

PALAVER - loud, confusing expressions, misleading or beguiling speech or flattering expressions intended to persuade.

PAUCILOQUENT - use as few words as possible

PELLUCID - language that is transparently clear, easy to understand. Pellucid is formed from Latin per ("through") plus lucidus—a word meaning "lucid, clear" that ultimately derives from the verb lucēre, meaning "to shine." Lucēre contributes meaning to the word elucidate meaning “to make clear, explain.”

PERSIFLAGE - frivolous bantering talk. From the 18th century French verb ‘persifler’ meaning “to banter" and was formed from the prefix ‘per’ meaning "thoroughly," and ‘siffler’ meaning "to whistle, hiss, or boo." Siffler is derived from the Latin verb ‘sibilare’ meaning "to whistle or hiss."

PARALIPSIS - the suggestion, by deliberate and concise treatment of the topic, that a lot of significance is being omitted in the conversation.

PARALOGIZE - to draw conclusions that don’t follow the logic presented.

PERORATE - to speak at length.

PHALANX- a number of people gathered for a united purpose.

PIFFLE - nonsense or trivial talk that wastes everyone’s time.

PLACATE - to make someone less angry or hostile.

POLYGLOT - speaking or writing in several languages. Multilingual and containing matter in several languages or composed of elements from different languages. The prefix ‘poly’ means "many" or "multi-." Glot comes from the Greek term ‘glōtta’ meaning "language" or "tongue." Glōtta is also the source of ‘glottis’ meaning the space between the vocal cords. Polyglot entered English in the 17th century, meaning "one who can write or speak several languages."

PRATE - to talk endlessly with no obvious points. People who do this tend to like to hear themselves talk.

PROLIX - marked by or using an excess of words; verbose, long-winded, using too many words.

PSITTACISM - mechanical, repetitive and meaningless speech.

PREVARICATE - to speak and act evasively.

PUGNACIOUS - inclined to fight or quarrel readily; belligerent attitude.

PUNCTILIO - strict or exact observance of formalities.

PUNCTUM - a small, distinct point.

RABBLE-ROUSER - a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public for their own self interests.

RETICENT - inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech

RIPOSTE - a quick and effective reply.

RODOMONTADE - vainglorious boasting and bragging.

SEMIOTICS - the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing

SESQUIPEDALIAN - someone given to using long words

SOLILOQUIZE - to utter a soliloquy or to talk to oneself

SPRACHGEFÜHL - the character of a language: An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate. It was borrowed from the German language at the end of the 19th century and combines two German nouns, ‘Sprache’, meaning "language, speech," and ‘Gefühl’ meaning "feeling."

TAARRADHIN - a compromise in which everyone wins.

TACHYGRAPHY - shorthand; shortened cursive writing

TACITURN - temperamentally disinclined to talk

TAUTOLOGY - needlessly repeating a thought or idea.

TOTIDEM VERBIS - too many words spoken or written.

VERBOSE - containing more words than necessary

VOCIFEROUS - crying out noisily; clamorous.

WORDMONGER - a speaker who uses words pretentiously or with careless disregard to meaning.

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