Sunday, 17 July 2011

locu / loqu / logy - speak / speech

elocution - diction, the way you pronounce, voice production OR skill of speaking with clarity
Sentence -If person has good elocution you would understand in phones.
Opp to this person who can speak may not make you understand much.

eloquent - expressive or fluent, persuasive
In marketing salesman is eloquent

loquacious - wordy, talkative, cariluos
It is related to mouth, not tongue.
rambling - v.long and confusing, longwinded,
effusive - expressing feeling v.v. strongly
taciturn - habitually reserved and uncommunicative (however abeyance may be there for some reason)
Antonym(taciturn) - voluble

dialogue - exchange of ideas

prologue - preamble, introduction, preface
Note that prologue is used mainly for oral communication (because note that logue refers to speech), while foreword is a kind of letter

monologue - speech you make to yourself OR long dramatic speech by a single actor

epilogue - finale,

colloquial - spoken in general, informed
Antonym - formal

grandiloquent - speaking something pompous, predencious, oeverseas bearing
Antonym - straight forward

prolix - wordy, flowery, rambling , protracted
Antonym - concise

analogous - similar, akin

interlocutor - person who takes part in dialogue

soliloquy - speech you make to yourself, OR act on speaking one's thought.

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