lol its hard
put some lotion on my circumlocution
Due to his recent stroke, Mr. Carlson used circumlocution to mask his difficulty recalling the names of household appliances.
The word is Periphrasis....and is the same as 'circumlocution
"The father of one's father" is the circumlocution of "grandfather".
His admission came after years of circumlocution.
Circumlocution, which means a wordy way of speaking, comes from the latin for "round" (circum) as a prefix, and the latin word meaning "to speak" and that word is "locutus"
I am not writing a sentence using that word.
a sentence using the word endotracheal
This is a sentence using the word aviator.
1. The king of the jungle (the lion) 2. The top of the world (Mt Everest) 3. The giant star (the sun) etc etc.
Circumlocation is not a word. Circumlocution is a word meaning a roundabout or ambiguous figure of speech. It is used often when a word isn't known but it's attributes are. It is also used to get around saying a word directly, for example: "where the bad men go" in place for Hell. In a sentence it is a noun: "He avoided the question by answering with circumlocutions."
I am saying a sentence using the word collagen.