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The Word of the Day for December 15 is:

verbose   \ver-BOHSS\   adjective 
    *1 : containing more words than necessary : wordy; also : impaired by 
wordiness 
     2 : given to wordiness 

Example sentence: 
     The writing style in government publications is often both dry and verbose 
-- a deadly combination.

Did you know? 
     There's no shortage of words to describe wordiness in English. "Diffuse," 
"long-winded," "prolix," "redundant," 
"windy," "repetitive," "loose," "rambling," "digressive," and "circumlocutory" 
are some that come to mind. Want to express the opposite idea? Try "succinct," 
"concise," "brief," 
"short," "summary," "terse," "precise," "compact," "lean," 
"tight," or "compendious." "Verbose," which falls solidly into the first camp 
of words, comes from Latin "verbosus," from "verbum," meaning "word." Other 
descendants of "verbum" include "verb," "adverb," "proverb," "verbal," 
"verbatim," and "verbicide" (that's the deliberate distortion of the sense of a 
word). 

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.