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211. Pauciloquent - Rare Formal Vocabulary - Pauciloquent / Pauciloquy

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 9. 20.
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Pauciloquent : 간결하게 말하는 것, 적게 말하는 것

Pauciloquy : (표현의)간결, 간결하게 말하는 특징, 간결한 표현술

 

Pauciloquent, they don't speak very much

They just use a few words when they say things, this is pauciloquent

Using a very few words either when you're speaking or in a conversation

He was a pauciloquent individual, but after a few drinks his pauciloquy decrease radically

brevity in speech

laconic, terse, concise, curt, monosyllabic, pretty taciturn, not long-winded, not rambling, not loquacious

This is unusual  word, use this in formal writing

 

 

Formality : 8.5

 

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