Word of the day Quiz # 2

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An error in naming a person or a place.

• malapropism

• misnomer

• verbose

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To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand.

• obfuscate

• neologism

• recondite

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Not easily understood

• recondite

• verbose

• obfuscate

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Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words

• succinct

• verbose

• recondite

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Characteristic of or appropriate to spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech

• colloquial

• malapropism

• obfuscate

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Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound

• malapropism

• colloquial

• neologism

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A new word, expression, or usage

• neologism

• recondite

• misnomer

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Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words

• verbose

• colloquial

• misnomer

abstruse is the synonym of ....

• recondite

• verbose

• misnomer

terse is the synonym of.....

• succinct

• obfuscate

• verbose