Multiple choice

Directions: Find the correct word to represent the phrase.

A round-about way of speaking

  1. gourmet

  2. flamboyant

  3. eccentric

  4. circumlocution

  5. garrulity
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Circumlocution is the use of many words where fewer would do, often in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive. It is literally a round-about way of speaking.

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