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Word of the Day for Saturday, March 12, 2011prolix \pro-LIKS; PRO-liks\, adjective: 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; wordy. It was a cumbersome book, widely criticized for being prolix in style and maddeningly circular in argument. Montaigne is a little too prolix in his determination to tell us almost everything that happens as he fishes his way across the country, and he gives us a few too many accounts of the people he meets and of their repetitiously gloomy opinions. Greenspan, on the other hand, is given to prolix comments whose sentences are hung like Christmas trees with dependent clauses. Prolix is derived from Latin prolixus, "poured forth, overflowing, extended, long," from pro-, "forward" + liquere, "to be fluid." | |||||||||
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