It's the Word of the Day podcast for May 22nd.
Today's word is voluble, spelled V-O-L-U-B-L-E.
Voluble is an adjective.
Someone may be described as voluble if they are talking a lot in a rapid, energetic way.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety.
The movie is built around an interview with the legendary 91-year-old actor,
still vigorous and voluble, with a seize-the-day cornball glow to him.
In You Can Call Me Bill, Shatner sits under the hot lights with the camera close to his face,
talking, talking, and talking about life, death, acting, fame, love, desolation, and trees.
In a chapter called Conversation from her 1922 book Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics,
and at Home, Emily Post offers her trademark good advice for the loquacious among us.
There is a simple rule by which if one is a voluble chatterer,
one can at least refrain from being a pest or boar.
And the rule is merely to stop and think.
Voluble, as is clear in this context, describes someone or something,
as in voluble personality, prose, presence, characterized by ready or rapid speech.
Voluble traces back to the Latin verb volvere,
meaning to set in a circular course or to cause to roll.
Another Volveri descendant, the word volume, can also be a help in remembering voluble's meaning,
not because someone described as voluble speaks at a loud volume per se,