high-sounding+words
31mouthful — Synonyms and related words: bellyful, bit, bite, bolus, bumper, capacity, champ, charge, chaw, chew, chomp, chunk, complement, cram, crush, cud, fill, full house, full measure, gnash, gob, hard words, high sounding words, hunk, jam up, jawbreaker …
32grandiloquence — n. Bombast, fustian, turgidity, lofty language, high sounding words, lofty style of speech, high flown language, altiloquence …
33Bombast — Bom bast (b[o^]m b[.a]st or b[u^]m b[.a]st; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See {Bombazine}.] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A candle… …
34Fustian — Fus tian, n. [OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fust[=a]t, i. e., Cairo, where it was made.] 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and… …
35Queen Christina (film) — Infobox Film name = Queen Christina caption = theatical poster director = Rouben Mamoulian producer = Walter Wanger writer = Story: Margaret P. Levino Salka Viertel Screnplay: S.N. Behrman H.M. Harwood starring = Greta Garbo John Gilbert music =… …
36Woolwich East by-election, 1921 — The Woolwich East by election, 1921 was a parliamentary by election held on 2 March 1921 for the British House of Commons constituency of Woolwich East, in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich in London.The seat had become vacant on the… …
37flourish — I. v. n. 1. Thrive, grow. 2. Prosper, succeed, be successful, go on well. 3. Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade, bluster, make a show, be ostentatious, show off, cut a dash, make a flourish. 4. Attain one s prime, be at the height of one s… …
38Mesopotamia, history of — ▪ historical region, Asia Introduction history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and… …
39Recall (memory) — Recollection redirects here. For other uses, see Recollection (disambiguation). Recall in memory refers to the retrieval of events or information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory.… …
40word — I n. independent, meaningful linguistic form 1) to coin a word 2) to pronounce, say, utter; write a word (to say a few words about smt.) 3) to mispronounce a word 4) to distort smb. s words 5) to not mince any words ( to speak frankly ) 6) angry …
