320: -fluent Oct 24, 2015

As promised, here is a look at words with a '-fluent' suffix. 'Affluent' usually refers to money or status, but its other sense of free flowing water is more literal. It comes from the Latin meaning ‘flowing toward, flowing freely'. Even 'fluent' has changed its meaning from what it used to be: ‘flowing freely or abundantly', and has now taken on a sense of solely eloquence in speech.