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| Using high sounding language, pompous. - Rachael is so bombastic, but no one understands her. |
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| To speak in a dramatic, pompous way. - That stupid cook was always correcting me, declaiming that I should think before I speak. |
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| A lengthy, bitter, abusive criticism. - When I asked what she thought of the restaurant, I wasn't expecting a diatribe. |
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| Rambling, wandering from one topic to another. - When the group of old ladies get together to knit, they are so discursive, I can't follow anything they are saying. |
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| Talking too much. - God, Melissa is so garrulous. She never shuts up. |
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| Speaking in a smooth, easy manner. - He was always so glib, it made me jealous. |
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| Using pompous, bombastic words. - I would rather be taciturn than grandiloquent. |
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| (Ha-rang) A loud, noisy or scolding speech. A tirade. - Whenever I leave my shoes on the counter, my Mom explodes in a harangue and I just have to listen to it. |
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| To bully or browbeat. - Hector was a corpulent little brat who was always hectoring the other, smaller kids. |
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| Using few words, terse. - She was so laconic, I wondered if maybe she was mute. |
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| Very talkative. - Maybe people who are loquacious just like to hear the sound of their own voice. |
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| Sounding sweet, smooth and honeyed. - The young woman's voice was so mellifluous they made her a late-night radio talkshow host. |
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| (Pith-ee) Concise, terse, full of meaning. - The old man's riddle was pithy. |
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| To speak in a pompous way. - You don't need to pontificate every time you speak. We know you're smart. |
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| Wordy, long-winded. - The President's speech was so prolix, I fell asleep. |
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| Very loud. - Drunk kids are so stentorian. |
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| Not liking to talk, always silent. - Trying to explain things to stupid people gives me a headache, so I'm always taciturn. |
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| Wordy, long-winded. - That damn SAT quiz was so verbose. |
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| Loud, noisy, vehement. - The corpulent woman was very vociferous about being voracious. |
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| Talkative. - There isn't much value to being voluble. |
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