Quote of the Day

'If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.' – from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett

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Word of the Day January 18

eloquent  pron   \EL-uh-kwunt\

adjective

Definition

marked by forceful and fluent expression

vividly or movingly expressive or revealing

"The governor waxed eloquent about growing up just a short distance away in Queens and what this part of the world meant to him." — Fred LeBrun, The Times-Union (Albany, New York), 15 Nov. 2015

Since eloquent can have something to do with speaking, it makes sense that it comes from the Latin verb loqui, which means "to speak." Loqui is the parent of many "talkative" offspring in English. Loquacious, which means "given to fluent or excessive talk," also arose from loqui. Another loqui relative is circumlocution, a word that means someone is talking around a subject to avoid making a direct statement (circum- means "around"). And a ventriloquist is someone who makes his or her voice sound like it's coming from another source.

Merriam-Webster