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Daemon
Posted: Saturday, December 16, 2023 12:00:00 AM
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ambage

(noun) A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.

Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis

Usage: His head was swimming when the lecture finally ended, and he felt the speaker's ambages had taken him everywhere and left him nowhere.
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Posted: Saturday, December 16, 2023 3:54:17 PM

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