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  2. Verbosity - Wikipedia

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    It is a combination of the Latin words grandis ("great") and loqui ("to speak"). [3] Logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Greek λογόρροια, logorrhoia, "word-flux") is an excessive flow of words. It is often used pejoratively to describe prose that is hard to understand because it is needlessly complicated or uses excessive jargon.

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    If something is perspicuous, it is easily understood; its meaning is obvious. If one is perspicacious, then one is quick to understand or has good insight. Standard: I admired her perspicacity; she just seemed to get it so much better than I. Standard: He expressed the idea so perspicuously that anyone could understand.

  5. Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage - AOL

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    Some recounted how they ended up feeling invested in a fling—and described it not only as bad news, but as a personal failure: They said that they “got caught” (as if red-handed), “caught ...

  6. Miscommunication - Wikipedia

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    Miscommunication ("mis" + "communication") is the failure of communicating clearly the intended message or idea. [1] It may be a social inability to communicate adequately and properly, and it is one of many types of communication barriers.

  7. Rectification of names - Wikipedia

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    The Analects states that social disorder often stems from failure to call things by their proper names, that is, to perceive, understand, and deal with reality. Confucius' solution to this was the "rectification of names". He gave an explanation to one of his disciples: A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve.

  8. I Felt Like A Complete Failure Of A Mom. Then A Doctor Said ...

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    Ultimately, mothering my kid, in all his big-feeling splendor, has expanded my fundamental understanding of what “good moms” are. Good moms aren’t the ones with the “nicest” kids.

  9. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary was first considered in 2006 when Koenig was studying at Macalester College, Minnesota and attempting to write poetry.The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows was the idea he came up with that would contain all the words he needed for his poetry, including emotions that had never been linguistically described. [11]