Verb Words

I’m always interested in words that relate to a particular area. A couple of weeks ago, I looked at words for book lovers. Now it’s time to think of words about words. In this case, I’m concentrating on one particular Latin root, verbum, the Latin word for word. That has spawned a number of other words in English, such as:

  • verb (14th century, meaning word)
  • verbal (relating to words, oral, relating to verbs)
  • verbalism (an expression, phrase or word; an emphasis on the importance of words; a cliche)
  • verbalist (someone who deals in words instead of facts, or who is skilled in using words)
  • verbalize (to put into words, or to change a word into a verb)
  • verbatim (word for word)
  • verbiage (excessive and meaningless use of words)
  • verbose (wordy)

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4 Responses to “Verb Words”

  1. Chan on May 24th, 2008 8:47 pm

    Thanks. It’s very help to my learning.

  2. Per M. Bergvall on May 24th, 2008 11:56 pm

    In your list of verb words, you miss the one of verbing, made famous by Calvin and Hobbes: “I like to verb words.” “What?” asked Hobbes. “I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when ‘access’ was a thing? Now it’s something to do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds (sic) language.”

  3. Boucelgui on May 25th, 2008 6:37 am

    I am a beginner I need lessons in vocabulary I love improve my level Thanks

  4. jagdish sandhu on August 22nd, 2008 6:22 pm

    i am student of journlism and mass communication. i am feeling week in wrinting. i want to improve language skills

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