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A colloquy is a formal conversation.
If you commune with something, you communicate without using words because you feel especially close to or in tune with it.
A piece of writing is discursive if it includes a lot of information that is not relevant to the main subject.
An interlocutor is the person with whom you are having a (usually formal) conversation or discussion.
A memorandum is a short note that helps someone remember what they’ve done or have to do; it can also be a form of communication that gives out information.
If you peruse some written text, you read it over carefully.
People who are reticent are unwilling to share information, especially about themselves, their thoughts, or their feelings.
A tacit agreement between two people is understood without having to use words to express it.
A taciturn person is quiet or silent by nature.
Verbiage is an excessive use of words to convey something that could be expressed using fewer words; it can also be the manner or style in which someone uses words.
Something that is verbose, such as a speech or article, contains too many words.
Noun
missive
MIS-iv
Context
Glen wrote Merry a missive or letter describing his love for her every day for a month. His lengthy, heartfelt, and thoughtful notes or missives arrived each afternoon, which Merry read with evident delight. After the arrival of Glen’s final missive or written message, Merry bought a plane ticket and traveled to Australia to see him in person.
Give Permission I need to handwrite an official missive to my boss for her to give me permission to take a personal day off of work.
Examples
A professor with his nose deep in a library archive in London has stumbled upon 47 previously unknown letters from, to and about Benjamin Franklin. . . . He was shocked to see that the first such letter was a copy of one written by Benjamin Franklin to the secretary of the governor of Maryland. He had never seen the missive before.
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Chicago Tribune
Toshiba Corp. fired another legal missive at manufacturing partner Western Digital Corp., warning the U.S. company to stop its “harassment” as the Japanese company tries to sell its flash memory business. Toshiba sent a letter to Western Digital's chief legal officer on Wednesday forcefully reasserting its right to auction off the business in which the two companies hold certain assets together.
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Bloomberg
Like his direct predecessor, Pickett has indicated he will issue a newsletter to keep us informed of Raleigh’s inner workings. That’s a good start, and we hope to find this missive regular and pinpointing a High Country defender championing the needs of the 93rd District.
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Watauga Democrat
Staff also discovered evidence of a long-lost romance: a few time-worn, handwritten love letters. As BBC News reports, the Scarborough Historical and Archaeological Society (SHAC), which is working with the hotel to assess the find, estimates that the missives date to between 1941 and 1944.
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Smithsonian Magazine
A missive is a form of communication “sent” in the mail.
Word Theater
B. Smyth - Letter He's writing his love a missive.
The panel shows a small video clip of either the word in actual use or a scene that represents the meaning of a word. This not only breaks up the monotony of studying words but also provides another avenue to strengthen word meaning. Enjoy!
