✅ Concise describes using language as efficiently as possible and expressing a lot in few words (I gave a concise explanation of the problem).

✅ Succinct refers to expressing something in few words (His text messages were always succinct).

✅ Concise emphasizes expressing big ideas as completely as possible but in as few words as possible (The text provided a concise history of environmental law).

✅ Succinct often emphasizes using as few words as you can, regardless of what is being expressed (She answered with a succinct “no”).

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✅ Wordy and verbose refer to using a lot of words, especially an unnecessary number, to say something (His wordy emails were annoying to read; Their reviews were always verbose).

✅ Verbose also suggests a pretentious style of speech (Her verbose acceptance speech made us roll our eyes).

✅ Wordy is a simpler word to describe pretentious language. Verbose is a more literary or formal term.

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✅ Alleviate means to make something easier to endure or deal with, or to lessen it (alleviate the pain).

✅ Assuage means to make something less severe, or to ease it (assuage his distress).

✅ Alleviate and assuage both refer to mitigating or easing difficult emotions or physical feelings.

✅ Alleviate particularly suggests taking away all or part of a certain feeling or emotion (The update alleviated my concerns), whereas assuage particularly suggests soothing a feeling, sensation or emotion (Seeing all the flowers blooming assuaged their sorrow).

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