Word of the Day: November 17, 2016

Ambage

Definition: (noun) A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
Synonyms: Circumlocution, Periphrasis
Usage: His head was swimming when the lecture finally ended, and he felt the speaker’s ambages had taken him everywhere and left him nowhere.

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