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occasional, ( ; ); Their
attention is sporadic, their focus in the classroom is sporadic, and they don't
perform well academically. — The Marietta Times;
• (spasmodic)- resembling a spasm or spasms; sudden but brief; sporadic,
( ); And then the
movements grew spasmodic, and then they grew weaker. — The Magician;
• (disjointed)- disconnected; incoherent, ( , , - );
Throughout the period the central government continued
cumbersome, disjointed, and inefficient. — The Governments of Europe;
• (disjunction)- the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; Maybe it
was that disjunction, or the deepening of the spring evening into night
outside, that made me even more nervous. — The Historian;
• (concatenate)- to link together; unite in a series or chain; If you're going
to concatenate strings, you need to tell it what order to aggregate them;
• (queue)- a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn, ( ; );
Policing the queue is a delicate matter;
tacit^ taciturn = reticent # assertive
• (tacit)- understood without being openly expressed; implied, ( , ,
, ); He would have liked the whole business to be tacit--a little
triumph of silent delicacy. — The Tragic Muse;
• (taciturn)- inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in
conversation, ( , , , ); He was
habitually taciturn, his face grave, he spoke slowly and in low tones, and he
seldom laughed. — Strange Stories from History for Young People;
• (reticent)- disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved, ( ,
); He is reticent, and somewhat slow of speech, but speaks his mind
openly and boldly when occasion calls for it. — Character;
• (assertive)- inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively selfassured;
Neither of these men on whom hangs Europe's destiny is in the least
degree strident or self-assertive. — Sir John French;
loquacious = garrulous = gabby = chatty = talky = talkative
• (loquacious)- talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative;
chattering; babbling; garrulous, ( , ); He was quite friendly and
inclined to be loquacious, although he spoke with a slight foreign accent. —
Peter Ruff and the Double Four;
• (garrulous)- excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp.
about trivial matters, ( , , , ); But the old man was