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eloquent = facile = fluent = glib = glib-tongued = smooth-spoken = silver =<br />

silver-tongued = voluble<br />

• (eloquent)- having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and<br />

appropriate speech,( ; ); Darsie's tone was eloquent, and she<br />

looked Ralph in the face with a quiet steadiness, at which he had the grace to<br />

blush. — A College Girl;<br />

• (facile)- moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes<br />

with superficiality,( , , ,<br />

( ) ); She could not but<br />

despise him for his facile openness, and yet she liked him for it, too. —<br />

Barchester Towers;<br />

• (fluent)- spoken or written with ease, ( ,<br />

, ); He grew talkative and fluent, and lost his lucidity of<br />

judgment, the first necessity for the conduct of affairs. — Eve and David;<br />

• (glib)- readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so,<br />

(( , ) ,<br />

); Her tongue is more glib, and her intellect sharper. — The Way<br />

We Live Now;<br />

• (glib-tongued)- artfully persuasive in speech;<br />

• (smooth-spoken)- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;<br />

• (silver-tongued)- persuasive; eloquent, ( ); a silver-tongued<br />

orator;<br />

• (voluble)- characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent;<br />

glib; talkative, ( , ); His tongue is very voluble, which,<br />

with canting, proves him a linguist. — The Complete Works of Whittier;<br />

piecemeal : fitful = interrupted = intermittent = sporadic = spasmodic :<br />

disjointed^ disjunction : concatenate : queue<br />

• (piecemeal)- piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually, ( );<br />

The story was extracted piecemeal, and was given in rambling, evasive<br />

fashion. — The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon;<br />

• (fitful)- coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring<br />

irregularly, ( ; ); His existence was<br />

feverish, fitful, and passionate. — PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete;<br />

• (interrupted)- broken; intermitted; fitful; acting irregularly or unequally;<br />

• (intermittent)- stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and<br />

beginning again, ( ); Epileptic attacks are intermittent, and the<br />

sufferer may appear quite sane between the attacks. — The Shrieking Pit;<br />

• (sporadic)- appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time;

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