Assessment Activity No. 2: What's Best for Me? Use your dictionary to find the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context. 1. My brother said, "I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience." Loquacious - 2. There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans. Benign- 3. It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein simply does not have the time to make complete use of his talent as conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer. Surfeit -​