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- pronunciation:
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kwihns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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| definition 1: |
skill or ability to use language that impresses or persuades.
The salesman's eloquence persuaded many to purchase his so-called remedies.The eloquence with which she wrote her essays impressed her professors.- similar words:
- expression, rhetoric
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| definition 2: |
powerful, impressive, or persuasive writing or esp. speaking.
- similar words:
- expression, oratory
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adjective + (n.)eloquence
great, greatest, heartbreaking, particular, poetic, powerful, quiet, silent, simple, stylistic
verb + (n.)eloquence
achieve, capture, lack, match, possess, require, speak, wish
(n.)eloquence
+ verb
express
noun + (n.)eloquence
conviction, depth, drama, enthusiasm, example, measure, poet, presence
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The word eloquence
contains the following parts:
e-
Latin
prefix
that means out, out of, away
  More about this word part:
The prefix e-
is an assimilated form of ex- used before roots beginning with certain consonants (b d, g, j, l, m, n, r, v). See ex-.
Example words:
ebullient, edentulous, edict, educate, educe, egregious, egress, ejaculate, eject, elaborate, elate, elect, elicit, elide, eligible, elite, elocution, elongate, eloquence, eloquent, elucidate, elude, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, emend, emerge, emergency, emigrate, eminent, emissary, emit, emollient, emolument, emulsion, enervate, enormity, enormous, enumerate, enunciate, eradicate, erase, erode, eruct, erudite, erupt, evacuate, evade, evaluate, evanesce, event, eventuate, evert, evict, evident, evocative, evoke, evolution, evolve, ineluctable, ineradicable
loqu, locu
Latin
root
that means speak; speech
Example words:
circumlocution, colloquial, colloquium, colloquy, elocution, eloquence, eloquent, grandiloquence, interlocutor, locution, loquacious, magniloquent, obloquy, soliloquy, ventriloquism
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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