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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 22, 2007

prolix \\pro-LIKS; PRO-liks\\, adjective:

1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; wordy.
2. Tending to speak or write at excessive length.

 It was a cumbersome book, widely criticized for being prolix in
 style and maddeningly circular in argument. 
 -- Simon Winchester, "Word Imperfect", The Atlantic, May 2001
 

 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. 
 -- Adam Hochschild, "Deep Wigglers of the Volga", New York
 Times, June 28, 1998
 

 Greenspan, on the other hand, is given to prolix comments whose
 sentences are hung like Christmas trees with dependent clauses. 
 -- John M. Berry, "Greenspan: A Man Aware of Feasibility",
 Washington Post, June 14, 1987
 

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Prolix is derived from Latin prolixus, "poured forth, overflowing,
extended, long," from pro-, "forward" + liquere, "to be fluid."

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