It's the Word of the Day podcast for June 9th.
Today's word is eloquent, spelled E-L-O-Q-U-E-N-T.
Eloquent is an adjective.
An eloquent speaker or writer expresses ideas forcefully and fluently.
An eloquent speech or piece of writing likewise expresses ideas in such a way.
The word eloquent can also describe something that is vividly or movingly expressive.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Kirkus' reviews.
Her concise yet eloquent text immerses young people in the watery setting,
letting them feel the whale's clicks
as they tingle and vibrate and emphasizing the strength of these animals' social bonds.
Words are powerful, especially when strung together in just the right sequence.
A well-crafted sentence, or one who crafts it, might be described as eloquent,
a word that comes from the Latin verb loquai, meaning to talk or speak.
The adjective loquacious is another loquai descendant.
It describes a person who is skilled at or has an affinity for talking.
Words are not alone in conveying emotion,
and eloquent is also used to describe what we find vividly or movingly expressive,
as when novelist and poet Thomas Hardy wrote of a burst of applause and a deep silence which was even more eloquent than the applause.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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