Multiple choice

Which of the following refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words?

  1. Verbosity

  2. Succinctness

  3. Nominalization

  4. Laconic phrase

  5. Obfuscation
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Explanation

Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea) refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words.

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