#572.  Conciseness. —­ N. conciseness &c. adj.; brevity, “the soul of
wit”, laconism[obs3]; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c. (shortening) 201; compression &c. 195; epitome &c. 596; monostich[obs3]; brunch word, portmanteau word. 
     V. be concise &c. adj.; condense &c. 195; abridge &c. 201; abstract
&c. 596; come to the point. 
     Adj. concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat,
compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious &c. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious. 
     Adv. concisely &c. adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a
word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.  Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Lat][Horace].

     #573.  Diffuseness. —­ N. diffuseness &c. adj.; amplification &c. v.;
dilating &c. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum[Lat]; flow of words &c. (loquacity) 584; looseness. 
     Polylogy[obs3], tautology, battology[obs3], perissology|; pleonasm,
exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages [obs3]; periphrase[obs3], periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c. 577. 
     V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge,
dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.
     maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.
     digress, ramble, battre la campagne[Fr][obs3], beat about the bush,
perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize[obs3]. 
     Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome[obs3], long-winded, longspun[obs3], long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious[obs3], roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. 
     Adv. diffusely &c. adj.; at large, in extenso[Lat]; about it and about
it.

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     #574.  Vigor. —­ N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c. adj.;
intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity.
     eloquence; command of words, command of language. 
     Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive,
impressive; sensational.
     spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent,
piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.
     lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned;
poetic. 
     Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms. 
     Phr. “thoughts that breath and words that burn” [Gray].