English Cred- and Loqui- root words

Credible

Offering reasonable grounds for being believed or trusted; capable of being believed; involving no obvious impossibility.

Incredulous

• When Calypso suddenly tells Odysseus that she will let him leave her island, he is shocked. He suspects a trap and refuses to believe she is being genuine until she swears an oath.

Unwilling or unable to believe something; showing disbelief or skepticism.

Loquacious

Given to fluent, excessive, or almost habitual talk; full of excessive talk.

Colloquy

Book 5 features a tense, highly formal interaction when the messenger god Hermes arrives at Ogygia. He and the nymph Calypso share a formal divine dialogue where he delivers Zeus's commands, and she bitterly complies

Formal conversation

Circumlocution

The use of unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea; evasive or indirect speech that talks around a subject rather than naming directly.

Colloquial

Used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; used or characterized by a conversational style.