Verbose
<ver-bowse>
wordy; talky; chatty;
using a lot of extra words to explain something.
The boy told a verbose story and we were bored.
Memory trick:
verbose reminds of verb
a verb is a word describing an action
At work:
Your instructions are too simple. Please make them verbose.
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