The client is describing her trip to town. Her speech consists of a rambling, jumbled set of unrelated words that no one can understand. This speech disturbance is called
1. neologism.
2. word salad.
3. flight of ideas.
4. verbigeration.
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Word salad is verbal communications in which a series of unrelated words are used.
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Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.