This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
ergophobia
breviloquence
exeleutherostomize
corpocracy
obdormition

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PRONUNCIATION:

(eks-uh-looth-uh-ROS-tuh-myz)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To speak out freely.

ETYMOLOGY:

Coined from Greek elements ex- (out) + eleutheros (free) + stoma (mouth). Earliest documented use: 1854.

USAGE:

“The offices of a General Manager of one of the few national banks is not the place to exeleutherostomize.”
B.S. Johnson; Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry; Collins; 1973.

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