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Word of the Day for Monday, September 29, 2008 verbiage \VUR-bee-ij\, noun: 1. An overabundance of words; wordiness. 2. Manner or style of expression; diction. The sheer volume of verbiage he has expelled over eight years is enough to make John Updike look blocked. -- Andrew Sullivan, "Sounds of Silence", New Republic, January 15, 2001 Points like these seem so self-evident as not to merit much repeating, but in the professional literature they appear all the time, slightly dressed up in academic verbiage. -- Michael Barrett, "The Case for More School Days", The Atlantic, November 1990 She also indulged in flowery verbiage that her classmates called "H.D." for "heightened diction." -- John Habich, "Mother Country", Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 25, 2001 Verbiage comes from French, ultimately from Latin verbum, "word." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for verbiage Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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