• Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

  Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright 1897-1975
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1. extraordinarily
2. impression
3. colloquial
4. closest
5. speech

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Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. by : Thornton Wilder

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