Today's Word "laconic"
Sparing with words
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Published in Vocabulary
laconic \luh-KON-ik\ (adjective) - Sparing with words, concise, terse.
"Lana's laconic way of speaking was completely at odds with her wordy, rambling prose style."
From Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon, Laconian, a resident of Laconia, an ancient country in southern Greece (Capital: Sparta). From the the reputation of the Laconians for terseness.