Lesson 14 Vocab Review

Anything that someone says can be considered a(n)?

• utterance

• prattle

• literate

• cogent

using or containing too many words; excessively wordy

• verbose

• discourse

• prattle

clever arguments that are misleading or incorrect

• sophistry

• utterance

• circumlocution

We were all enchanted by the __________ entertaining tales.

• sophist's

• raconteur's

• circumlocution's

to talk foolishly; to chatter

• prattle

• literate

• falter

Most _________ people are familiar with the name William Shakespeare

• literate

• raconteur

• verbose

to hesitate or stammer in speech; to move or function in an unsteady way

• cogent

• prattle

• falter

In his eloquent _________ Frederick Douglass argued for the freeing of slaves

• raconteurs

• discourses

• circumlocutions

• falters

logical and convincing; appealing to reason

• sophistry

• cogent

• literate

the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language

• circumlocution

• sophistry

• utterance

• verbose