Day 79 - Cluster Words
- Fustian - Pompous style of speech or writing; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.
Fustian can’t disguise the author’s meager plot.
- Sonorous - Characterized by language, speech that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style.
A sonorous orator.
- Aureate - Elaborately or excessively ornamented; flamboyant (esp. writing or speech).
The senator’s aureate speech.
- Rhetoric - The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
His offers of compromise were pure rhetoric.
- Declamatory - Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument.
- Grandiloquent/Magniloquent - Speaking in a lofty style; pompous.
- Orotund - Pompous and bombastic; Full in sound.
Orotund talk.
Orotund tones.
- Turgidity - Pompously embellished language; flatulence.
Turgid language; turgid prose.
- Claptrap/Rant- Pretentious, insincere, or empty language.





