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Enhancing Communication Skills Through Word Play

Dive into the world of language and expand your vocabulary with intriguing words like "hypothecate" and "circumlocution." Improve your verbal prowess and impress others with your lexicon. Discover the meanings within words and boost your linguistic proficiency.

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Enhancing Communication Skills Through Word Play

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  1. Word Within the Word - 32 Eric Hayes Kalin Otto

  2. withkittens!

  3. hypothecate (hi-poth-uh-kate) hypo – under

  4. heterodox (hett-er-oh-dox) hetero – different dox - opinion

  5. paterfamilias (pat-er-fah-me-lee-us) pater - father

  6. putative (pyoo-tah-tiv) put - think

  7. aver (ah-vur) ver - true

  8. megaton (meg-a-tun) mega - large

  9. sangfroid (sahn-frwah) sangui - blood

  10. alter ego (alteree-go) alter – other ego – I

  11. altercation (alter-kay-shun) alter – other tion – act or state

  12. contravene (contra-veen) contra – against ven – come

  13. confluence (kon-flu-ence) con – together flu – flow

  14. circumlocution (sir-cum-low-kyoo-shun) circum – around tion – act or state loqu - talk

  15. soliloquy (so-lil-o-kwee) sol – alone loqu - talk

  16. mollify (moll-ih-fie) moll – soft fy - make

  17. gregarious (greh-gar-ee-us) greg – group ous – full of

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