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| 1. (adj) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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| 1. (adj) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy; 2. puffed up with vanity; 3. the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff |
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| (adj) of momentous or ominous significance; ominously prophetic; puffed up with vanity |
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| 1. (adj) from English dial. 'hoit' - to play the fool; originally meant thoughtless, giddy behavior, but has come to mean pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous |
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| 1. (adj) this word is used to highlight and ridicule snobbish forms of behaviour or speech |
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| 1. (adj) British expression for upstart |
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1. (adj) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
(noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class |
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| 1. (adj) Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position; 2.(n)A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class |
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| 1. (adj) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; 2. (adj) concise and full of meaning [obs] |
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| 1. (adj) given to the overuse of long words; 2. (adj) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; 3. (n) A very long word |
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| 1. (adj) lofty in style; 2. (adj) puffed up with vanity |
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| 1. (adj) Intended to attract notice and impress others; 2. (adj) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar |
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| 1. (adj) ostentatiously lofty in style; 2. (adj) (of sounds) full and rich |
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| 1. (adj) become wider; 2. (adj) Cause to expand as if by internal pressure; 3. (adj) swell from or as if from internal pressure |
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| 1. (adj) ostentatiously lofty in style; 2. (adj) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas [main pressure of cell contents on cell walls of plants and bacteria, caused by water content in the vacuole] |
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| 1. (adj) ostentatiously lofty in style; 2. (adj) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; 3. (adj) (physiology) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid |
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| 1. (adj) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas |
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1. (v) cause to bulge out or project
2. (v) form a rounded prominence |
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| 1. (adj) so great in size, force or extent as to elicit awe; 2. (adj) of momentous or ominous significance; 3. (adj) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree |
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| 1. (adj) so great in size, force or extent as to elicit awe |
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| 1. (adj) superior to mundane matters, having a god-like quality; 2. (adj) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree |
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