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- growth 395
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- LEAVE 59
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- Inward 114
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- give 306
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- cloth cap 49
- Dormitory 156
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- mammals 27
- balsam 90
- floppies 39
- spark 463
- unscripted 196
- tip over 96
- expression 438
- tend 581
- superintendent 184
- Absorb 230
- notional 420
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- monthly 666
- public 410
- Rime 30
- spaceship 392
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- trounce 173
- glummer 47
- crevasse 62
- gear up 75
- cabal 50
- provision 409
- sideways 464
- Graffiti 67
- ledge 199
circumlocution
Word family
cir·cum·lo·cu·tion /ˌsɜːkəmləˈkjuːʃən $ ˌsɜːr-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU] formal
ALthe practice of using too many words to express an idea, instead of saying it directly 婉转曲折的说法，迂回的说法
Examples from the Corpus
circumlocution• Shakespeare's narration has an excess of artifice and circumlocution.• The Shakespearean illusions, the pose of madness and threat unraveling in chilling circumlocution.• Approximate synonyms, or else circumlocutions, are chosen to fill the gap.• The whole thing was so oblique, so fiendish in its circumlocutions, that he did not want to accept it.• He had an aversion for proper names, employing instead a number of poetic circumlocutions.• They both knew, of course, that Hal was hearing every word, but they could not help these polite circumlocutions.• It takes a long time to say a little, because of all those circumlocutions.• But whatever circumlocutions are conferred upon him, Simon would appear to be rather more obtrusive than some translators might wish.
cir·cum·lo·cu·tion noun
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
circumlocution
Being careful about what you say: imply, get at, convey...
Words used to describe writing or speech style: articulate, be couched in something, chatty...
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