session-25

Title

• about keeping one's mouth shut

• better left unsaid

• talk talk talk

• Helping Word

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about keeping one's mouth shut

• taciturn

  Latin verb:   taceo
              (to be silent)

  • Following are synonym

    • silent

    • uncommunicative

    • reticent

    • reserved

    • secretive

    • close-lipped

    • close-mouthed

  • taciturnity (adj)

better left unsaid

• tacit: unspoken, unsaid, not verbalized

  derives also from taceo

  • tacitness (noun)

• reticent: someone who prefers to keep silent, whether out of shyness, embarrassment, or fear of revealing what should not be revealed.

  • reticence or reticency (noun)

talk talk talk

• loquacious: people love to talk

  • loquacity or loquaciousness (noun)

  Latin root:   laquor
              (to speak)

loquor, a root also found in:

1. soliloquy: a speech to oneself (etymologically, a speech when alone)

Latin root:   laquor    +   solus
            (to speak)     (alone)

• soliloquist (noun)

• soliloquize (verb)

1. ventriloquist: one who can throw his voice. [A listener thinks the sound is coming from some source other than the person speaking]

Latin root:  venter, ventris
              (belly)

• ventriloquism: etymologically, the art of "speaking from belly"

• ventriloquistic (adj)

1. colloquial: ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. (बोलचाल की भाषा)

When people speak together they are engaging in conversation - and their language is usually more informal and less rigidly grammatical than what you might expect in writing or in public address.

• colloquialism: a conversational-style expression

Informal: "He hasn't got any", "Who are you going with?"

Formal or Literary: "He has none", "With whom are you going?"

Colloquial English is the English you and I talk on everyday occasions - it is not slangy, vulgar or illiterate.

1. circumlocution: talking around

• circumlocutory: any way of expressing an idea that is roundabout or indirect

  Prefix root:  circum-
                (around)

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Helping Word

• roundabout:

  • (noun): a road junction at which traffic moves in one direction round a central island to reach one of the roads converging on it.

  • (adj): not following a short direct route; circuitous.

• virtue (n): behaviour showing high moral standards.

• hail(ed): fall or be hurled forcefully.

• hurl(ed): throw with great force.

• introspection: the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.

• inadequacy: he state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required.

• morose: sullen and ill-tempered.

• sullen (adj): bad-tempered and sulky.

• indifferent (adj): having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned.

• by virtue of (phr verb): because or as a result of.

• make a virtue of (phr verb): to benefit from something that you are forced to do