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Concise (adj) brief and to the point (con- altogether + cis cut)
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Ricky, try to be a bit more concise in this paper; the assignment was for a three-page paper; yours was 106.
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Laconic (adj) disposed to using few words (from Latin term for Spartans, who spoke little)
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I've known Lucy for ten years, but she's so laconic that I hardly know anything about her past.
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Succinct (adj) spoken or written in a clear and precise manner
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Because commercial time during the Super Bowl runs over $3 million per minute, it's good to be succinct.
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Brusque (adj) rudely abrupt
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My girlfriend tends to be brusque when she's mad; she just tells me to "talk to the hand."
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Abridge (v) to shorten a written text
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The dictionary was 1,400 pages long before it was abridged by the publishers to 850 pages.
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