What's the difference between loquacious and reserved?

Loquacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
  • (a.) Speaking; expressive.
  • (a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of his advisers, Jen Psaki, said last week: "The president is familiar with his own loquaciousness and his tendency to give long, substantive answers."
  • (2) During his last trip to China in 2013, the loquacious London mayor bamboozled Chinese interpreters with his use of words such as polymorphous and joked about his Bullingdon Club days to a senior Communist party leader.
  • (3) They outsourced much of the press publicity to guest performers such as Pharrell Williams and the loquacious Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
  • (4) Aso, a loquacious politician with a knack for verbal blunders, vowed to put his gaffe-prone past behind him when he became leader two months ago.
  • (5) This is leaving both young people and businesses without the skills they need to succeed for the future.” Analysis: On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the normally loquacious shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, seemed to lose his sure touch when Sarah Montague questioned him on the figures.
  • (6) With his rotund figure, swarthy complexion, harrumphing manner, horn-rimmed spectacles, transatlantic tones and tendency to lurk loquaciously about the aisles at the interval, he was a familiar figure at West End openings.
  • (7) Anecdotal reports suggest that children with Williams syndrome are loquacious, affectionate, charming, open, and gentle.
  • (8) An hour in his company confirms all three characteristics, and "loquacious" and "political" must have been close contenders for inclusion too.
  • (9) The loquacious “ginger one from Super Saturday” whose dad recently built him a long jump pit in his back garden, now keeps the most exalted of company.
  • (10) A previous study demonstrated the existence in these patients of a syndrome of mildly elevated psychomotor rate, including irritability, grandiosity, an increased need for social contact, loquaciousness, and sexual preoccupation.
  • (11) This study found that the deaf children responded more loquaciously to questions than they did to statements or expressions of ideas; and the children did not have success in continuing topics of conversation.
  • (12) In 2007, I spent a deliriously enjoyable hour talking to Denis Healey, who was about to turn 90 - and may not have been quite as loquacious as when he was in charge of the UK economy, but still delivered, in spades.
  • (13) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
  • (14) "ISI extols the virtues of some Taliban elements" read one small headline that provided no other details; otherwise loquacious television anchors were largely silent on the matter.
  • (15) Irish actor Saoirse Ronan lamented her loquaciousness recently after revealing her audition publicly, only to be told she had not won a part.
  • (16) The loquacious Ulsterman was a right-half like "Billy Nick", but there the resemblance ended.
  • (17) In recent meetings George Osborne, the normally loquacious chancellor, was said to have gone quiet, possibly tongue-tied by being the one who hired Coulson in the first place.
  • (18) Williams syndrome is associated with intellectual and growth retardation, infantile feeding problems which may be associated with hypercalcaemia, cardiovascular abnormalities, a friendly, loquacious personality, and a typical facies.

Reserved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Reserve
  • (a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
  • (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (2) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
  • (3) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
  • (4) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
  • (5) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
  • (6) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
  • (7) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
  • (8) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
  • (9) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
  • (10) That, however, is reserved for the most serious cases and the indications are that a fine is the likely outcome.
  • (11) Overall, the differences in skeletal muscle energy state during rest and the corresponding changes in concentration of high-energy phosphates during mild exercise suggest a very limited energy reserve in the hypotonic muscle of VLBW infants.
  • (12) Parenteral cyclophosphamide or corticosteroid pulses should be reserved for cases with vasculitis or refractoriness to conventional drugs.
  • (13) Calcium supplementation should be reserved for patients with clear clinical signs of hypocalcemia and dialysate calcium should be adjusted to prevent excessive positive calcium balance.
  • (14) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
  • (15) Spiramycin, though not constantly effective, is reserved for immunosuppressed patients.
  • (16) It suggested that the decrease of pituitary reserve might probably be the pathogenesis of Kidney deficiency.
  • (17) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
  • (18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
  • (19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
  • (20) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.