Tuesday, May 18, 2010

WORD of the day

eloquent/ELO-kwent/; adjective

: Marked by forceful and fluent expression
: Vividly or movingly expressive or revealing

Example Sentence: “It was an eloquent speech that, unlike modern presidents, he wrote himself.”

--Harold Holzer, Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

Other ways to say it: articulate, expressive, impassioned, moving, persuasive, poetic, vivid.

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