Word Of The Week (WOW #14)

Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me), it’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post. Here’s this week’s WOW:

WOW

Here’s the WOW for this week :

Enervate-3Word: Garrulous

Part Of Speech:

garrulous: adjective garrulously: adverb garrulousness: noun garrulity: noun

Pronunciation: 

garuh-luh s

Meaning: 
excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
Synonyms:

Talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, long-winded, chatty, gossipy, gossiping, babbling, blathering.

Antonyms: Taciturn, reticent, concise.

Word Origin: 

early 17th century: from Latin garrulus (from garrire ‘to chatter, prattle’) + -ous.
Use in sentence: 

adjective: A garrulous cab driver. noun: The character’s comic garrulity.

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47 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #14)”

  1. Hey there Heena. I always learn new words from you, and garrulous is no different. I had never heard this word before. I think I may have been guilty of being ‘garrulous’ more than once in my life as well. Eek. Hmmmmmmm… Is that good?
    Have a great week, my friend.
    🙂

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