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May 17, 2008

Day 79 - Cluster Words

Filed under: Must Know 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.
        A pompous, declamatory manner of speech.
  • Grandiloquent/Magniloquent - Speaking in a lofty style; pompous.
        We were all ears for his grandiloquent/Magniloquent speech.               
  • 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.
        Everyone is well aware of his claptrap/rant talk and hence do not pay any heed to it..
       
       

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