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Word of the Day
laconic | luh-KAH-nik | adjective
: using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
Example sentence:
"While the Ingallses were living outside the town of De Smet, in what is now South Dakota, Laura met her future husband, a laconic homesteader ten years her senior." (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, August 10, 2009)
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