high-sounding+words
121heavy — heavy, weighty, ponderous, cumbrous, cumbersome, hefty. Something is heavy which is denser and more compact in substance or larger in size or amount than the average of its kind or class and so weighs more in proportion {lead is a heavy metal} {a …
122Dov Gruner — (Hebrew: דב גרונר) was a Jewish Zionist leader born in Kisvárda, Hungary on December 6, 1912. On April 19, 1947, he was executed by the British Mandatory authorities in Palestine on the charge of firing on policemen, and setting explosive… …
123Civil liberties in the United Kingdom — have a long and formative history. This is usually considered to have begun with the English legal charter the Magna Carta of 1215, following its predecessor the English Charter of Liberties, a landmark document in English legal history. Judicial …
124bombastic — bombastically, adv. /bom bas tik/, adj. (of speech, writing, etc.) high sounding; high flown; inflated; pretentious. Also, bombastical. [1695 1705; BOMBAST + IC] Syn. pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose. BOMBASTIC, FLOWERY,… …
125history, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy concerned with questions about the meaningfulness of history and the nature of historical explanation. Philosophy of history in the traditional sense is conceived to be a first order inquiry, its subject matter being the… …
126magniloquent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pompous, boastful, bombastic. See boasting. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery,… …
127overblown — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. superfluous, excessive, profuse, flowery; see oratorical , verbose . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. excessive, exaggerated, inflated, puffed up, overdone, overworked, immoderate, disproportionate. ANT.: modest,… …
128swollen — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. distended, puffed, swelled; see enlarged , inflated . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. enlarged, distended, bloated, puffy, puffed up, bulging, inflated, edemic, tumid, turgid. ANT.: deflated, contracted, shrunken III… …
