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12. ventriloquist ven′-TRIL′-Ə-kwist
13. ventriloquism ven-TRIL′-Ə-kwiz-Əm
14. ventriloquistic ven-tril′-Ə-KWIS′-tik
15. ventriloquize ven-TRIL′-Ə-kwīz′
16. colloquial kƏ-LŌ′-kwee-Əl
17. colloquialism kƏ-LŌ′-kwee-Ə-liz-Əm
18. circumlocution sur′-kƏm-lō-KY ′-shƏn
19. circumlocutory sur′-kƏm-LOK′-yƏ-tawr′-ee
Can you work with the words?
a. unwillingness to talk, or disclose, out of
1. taciturnity
fear, shyness, reserve, etc.
2. tacitness b. talking, or a speech, “to oneself”
3. reticence c. art of throwing one’s voice
4. loquacity d. unwillingness to engage in conversation
e. informal expression used in everyday
5. soliloquy
conversation
f. state of being understood though not
6. ventriloquism
actually expressed
g. a talking around; method of talking
7. colloquialism
indirectly or in a roundabout way
8. circumlocution h. talkativeness
