Logophilia March 3, 2015

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I am reading the book On Writing Well, a book that gives advice on how to improve my nonfiction writing. I came across this words while reading the beginning parts.

Trenchantly

keen or incisive: trenchant criticism

vigorous and effective: a trenchant foreign policy

distinctly defined: a trenchant outline

Elucidate

to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain: an explanation that elucidated his recent strange behavior.

Mollify

to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.

Clotted

to cause to become blocked or obscured: to clot the book’s narrative with too many characters.

Verbiage

overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.

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