n. roundabout or indirect way of speaking; verbosity (*) eradication (*) circumlocution (*) pedagogue (*) spendthrift

v. to rip or pull from; to split with violence; to disturb with a sharp noise; to tear (*) emanate (*) codify (*) discriminate (*) rend

adj. transparent; intelligible; lucid; clear; understandable (*) miscreant (*) pellucid (*) rabid (*) erratic

v. to separate (a sentence or word) into parts and describe the function of each (*) foist (*) cavil (*) trek (*) parse

n. striking one object against another; rapping (*) percussion (*) circumlocution (*) abnegation (*) equinox

v. to babble while speaking (*) disperse (*) plumb (*) dissemble (*) prattle

v. to foretell something; to portend (*) diverge (*) condone (*) bode (*) subsume

adj. happening every two years (*) painstaking (*) biennial (*) synthetic (*) indulgent

n. ability to speak well (*) subtlety (*) eloquence (*) itinerary (*) authoritarian

n. anything which creates a situation in which change can occur (*) parity (*) quiescence (*) diminutive (*) catalyst