“Laconic” (luh-KON-ik) – from the Greek – means expressing a lot by using a few words.
Example (as used by Brenda Wineapple in a New York Times review of Woodsburner by John Pipkin): “‘I once set fire to the woods’ Henry David Thoreau laconically confided to his journal in 1850, six years after he torched approximately 300 acres of Concord forest.”
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