Session 25 Flashcards

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Tight lipped

A

refusing to talk about something

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2
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Close mouthed

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Cautious in speaking ,reticent

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3
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Tacit

A

understood but not actually said
Tacit aggreement

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4
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Reticent

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not wanting to tell people about things
Prefers to keep silence
Reticence

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5
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Soliloquy

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a speech in a play in which a character, who is alone on the stage, speaks his/her thoughts aloud; the act of speaking thoughts aloud in this way
Soliloquist
Solilquize

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6
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Ventriloquist

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the ability to speak without moving your lips so that your voice seems to be coming from someone or something else, usually as a way of entertaining people.
Ventriloquial
Ventriloquism

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7
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Colloquial

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used in spoken conversation, not in formal situations

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8
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Circumlocution

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the use of too many words to express something; a long, complicated, indirect way of speaking or writing
Talk in a round about manner

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