phras

Usage

• paraphrase

  When you paraphrase, you put into your own words what you have just read, usually in a shorter version.

• periphrasis

  a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

• periphrastic

  roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

• phrase

  put into words or an expression

• phraseology

  the manner in which something is expressed in words

• phrasing

  the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line