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Assail vs Volubility - What's the difference?

assail | volubility |

As a verb assail

is to attack violently using words or force.

As a noun volubility is

(uncountable) the state of being voluble.

assail

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To attack violently using words or force.
    • Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
    For the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story! (from H.H. Munro's short story, "The Storyteller").

    volubility

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being voluble
  • * 1919 ,
    • His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.
  • (countable) the degree to which someone is voluble