| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Pretentious, pompous speech or writing: bombast, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, magniloquence, orotundity, turgidity. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS. |
| VERB: | To speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner: declaim, harangue, mouth, perorate, rave. See WORDS. |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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