taciturn
habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech
Word origin: From Latin tacere, to be silent.
Taciturn in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing taciturn in a sentence.
The taciturn old fisherman answered every question with a grunt rather than a sentence.
The taciturn witness answered each question in a single word and volunteered nothing more.
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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
Using “taciturn” well
Taciturn describes a person habitually reserved and sparing of speech, a trait of temperament rather than a single silence. Distinguish it from tacit, which describes something implied rather than spoken.
More GRE words starting with T
understood or implied without being openly stated
only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point
perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
equivalent in effect or value to something else
to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
needless repetition of the same idea in different words
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