voluble

VOL-yuh-buladj

Meaning talking easily, quickly and at length

Memory hook VOL-yuh-bul: VOLLEYBALL talk. Lila and Maya talk like a volleyball game: words fly fast, bounce right back and never hit the ground. Both girls are voluble.

The voluble tour guide chatted happily all the way up the mountain.

In context Shy in a big crowd, Rosa became voluble with close friends, talking fast and happily for hours about books, music and her plans.

Similar talkative, fluent, chatty, loquacious

Opposite taciturn, reticent, quiet

From Latin volubilis, “rolling, flowing,” from volvere, “to roll”: words roll easily off a voluble tongue.

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