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- Thesaurus|278
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| expletive | |
| exuberance | |
| figure of speech(expression, idiom) | |
| garrulousness | |
| gassiness(noun, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| indirect speech(noun, expression, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| indirection | |
| indirectness(noun, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| loquacity(repetition, waffle, wordiness, verbosity) | |
| macrology(repetition, profusion, overabundance, superabundance) | |
| malapropism | |
| metaphor | |
| simile | |
| speech | |
| verbal effusion | |
| verbal evasion(noun, expression, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| verbality(noun, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| ambiguity | |
| attrition(repetition, profusion, overabundance, superabundance) | |
| battology |
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