SAT Word of the Day – circumlocution

circumlocution – (n) the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.

synonyms – periphrasis, circuitousness, indirectness; tautology, repetition, repetitiveness, repetitiousness, diffuseness, discursiveness, long-windedness, verbosity, wordiness, prolixity, verbiage, redundancy, superfluity; euphemism; informalbeating about the bush; rarepleonasm, perissology