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61bombast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. boasting, braggadocio, grandiloquence, exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grandiloquence, rant, fustian, pomposity; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. grandiloquence, rodomontade,… …
62claptrap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nonsense (See unmeaningness). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. empty talk, drivel, bombast, bunk; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [KLAP TRAP] pretentious writing or talk… …
63grandiloquent — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, histrionic, bombastic; see bombastic , oratorical . See Synonym Study at bombastic . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [gran DIL uh kwent] using big words to try to impress, bombastic. Many… …
64rhetorical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. oratorical, bombastic, eloquent; see verbose . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. expressive articulate, eloquent, fluent, persuasive, well said, *silver tongued. 2. grandiloquent magniloquent, bombastic, fustian,… …
65orotund — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. resounding sonorous, booming, resonant, projecting, stentorian, reverberating, thundering, powerful, mighty, rich. 2. grandiose in speech pompous, bombastic, fustian, bloated, grandiloquent. see oration, voice… …
66Inelegance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Inelegance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 inelegance inelegance Sgm: N 1 stiffness stiffness &c. >Adj. =>unlettered Muse Sgm: N 1 unlettered Muse unlettered Muse =>(Gray) Sgm: N 1 barbarism barbarism Sgm …
67jean — twilled cotton cloth, mid 15c., from M.Fr. jean fustian fustian (a type of twilled cotton cloth) of Genoa, the city in Italy, from O.Fr. Jannes Genoa, from L. Genua (see GENOA (Cf. Genoa)). The plural form jeans became standard 19c …
68jeans — [19] Jeans of the sort we would recognize today – close fitting working trousers made of hard wearing, typically blue cloth – emerged in America in the mid 19th century. But their antecedents have to be sought in a far distant place. The first… …
69jean — [jēn] n. [< ME Gene (fustian), (fustian) of Genoa < OFr Janne < ML Janua < L Genua, Genoa] 1. a durable cotton cloth in a twill weave, used for work clothes and casual wear 2. [pl.] trousers of this material, often blue, or of denim,… …
70Beaverteen — Bea ver*teen, n. A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds. [1913 Webster] …
