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voluble
adjective
characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause.
More about voluble
Voluble ultimately comes from the Latin adjective 惫辞濒奴产颈濒颈蝉 鈥渞olling, rotating, spinning (on an axis); (of speech or speakers) fluent.鈥� 痴辞濒奴产颈濒颈蝉 is a derivative of the verb volvere 鈥渢o roll, roll over, roll around, grovel; to bring around (seasons, events).鈥� Compounds of volvere are common in Latin and English: 脓惫辞濒惫别谤别 鈥渢o unroll, open鈥� (English evolve), d脓惫辞濒惫别谤别 鈥渢o roll down, roll off, sink back鈥� (English devolve), involvere 鈥渢o roll up, roll in鈥� (English involve), and revolvere 鈥渢o roll back (something to its source), unroll (a scroll for reading鈥� (English revolve). Other Latin derivatives from the same root include 惫辞濒奴尘别苍 鈥渞oll, papyrus roll鈥� (English volume), 惫辞濒奴迟补 鈥渟croll (on a column) (English volute),鈥� vulva, volva 鈥渨omb, vulva鈥� (English vulva). Voluble entered English in the 16th century.
how is voluble used?
But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before.
And he aged into a voluble and distinctive public character, a roguish charmer in a kufi, operating out of a packed storefront studio, tooling around Memphis in a plush old sedan.
pettifog
verb
to bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters.
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The verb pettifog is a back formation from the noun pettifogger, originally 鈥渁mbulance chaser, shyster, fixer.鈥� Pettifogger is a compound of the adjective petty 鈥渙f minor importance鈥� and fogger 鈥渁 middleman.鈥� Fogger itself probably derives ultimately from Fugger, the name of a prominent family of German bankers of the 15th and 16th centuries. The family name became a common noun in German and Dutch, meaning 鈥渞ich man, monopolist, usurer.鈥� Pettifog entered English in the 17th century.
how is pettifog used?
Marius, my boy, you are a baron, you are rich, don’t pettifog鈥擨 beg of you.
The way for the President to protect his prerogatives of office is not to pettifog about war powers but to go to the nation with his case.
More about melic
Melic comes from the Greek adjective 尘别濒颈办贸蝉 鈥渓yric (poetry, poet),鈥� a derivative of the noun 尘茅濒辞蝉 鈥渓imb (of a body), member, musical member, musical phrase, music, song.鈥� Melic is not a common word, unlike its cousin melody, from 尘茅濒辞蝉 and 艒颈诲岣� 鈥渟ong鈥� (the source of English ode). Melic entered English at the end of the 17th century.
how is melic used?
… anapaests are commonly used either as a sung form, “melic anapaests”, or chanted, a form sometimes called “marching anapaests.”
The earliest discussions call this kind of verse 鈥�melic鈥� (the Greek聽melos聽means 鈥榮ong鈥�), and roughly distinguish sung poems from epic and tragedy.