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phatic
adjective
(phat-ic)
of, relating to, or being speech used for social or emotive purposes rather than for communicating information
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phatic
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rhetorical device
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epideictic
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epidictic
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breviloquence
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brachyology
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wordish
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verbal
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parenetic
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hortative
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facound
,
unrhetorical
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preceptial
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anacoluthic
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rhetorical
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expressive style
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figure of speech
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speechful
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pauciloquy
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terse
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circumlocutional
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declamatory
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emphatic
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conversational
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bombastry
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conversationism
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ecobabble
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nonvocalic
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eloquent
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circumlocutionary
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suaviloquy
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perissological
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dorism
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tralation
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kyriology
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hortatory
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set phrase
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poetic
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antiphrastic
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autological
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emphaticalness
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inaniloquent
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discursive
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double talk
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emotive
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circumlocutious
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wordy
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platitudinize
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extradictionary
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meaningless
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sermocination
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facundity
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colloquial
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laconize
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blabbermouthed
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anacoluthia
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intrasentential
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hysteron proteron
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nonverbal
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parisyllabic
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multiloquous
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speech act
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illocutionary
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semasiological
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interjectional
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direct speech
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paralinguistic
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communicative
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altiloquent
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dulciloquy
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oxytone
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pep talk
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doricism
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imparisyllabic
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enunciative
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function word
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forespeech
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metalinguistic
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biverbal
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vernaculous
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ecthlipsis
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amphilogy
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confabulatory
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language unit
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nonverbal communication
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grandiloquent
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formal language
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succinct
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slangy
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enunciable
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intralinguistic
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demonstrative
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sentential
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unverbalized
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oratorical
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bigmouthed
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multiloquy
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pithy
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hold forth
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nonlexical
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endophasia
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