“Voluble” (VOL-yuh-bul) – from the Latin for “to turn easily”) – means talkative/fluent/glib, having a ready and continuous flow of words.
Example (as used by Scott Eyman in a Palm Beach Post review of The Paris Review Interviews Volume III, edited by Philip Gourevitch): “Most writers are voluble because they spend so much time alone.”
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