SAT vocabulary
Pleonasm
The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
Example
"The phrase 'free gift' is a pleonasm, as all gifts are inherently free."
Etymology
From Greek pleonasmos 'excess,' from pleonazein 'to be superabundant,' from pleion 'more.'
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