The ability to get a point across with words is not always an easy task.

Whether spoken or written, your aim is to re-create your idea, as near as possible, in someone else's mind.

You must choose your words and phrasing carefully so that at the end of the exercise, you and your audience understand each other.

Clarity

Pronunciation: 'kler-ə-tē Function: noun

Etymology:

Middle English clarite, from Latin claritat-, claritas, from clarus

Date: 1616

Definition

: clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding

: freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity

: state or quality of being clear to the eye

Syn: intelligibility, exactness, simplicity

(Source: Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary)