high-sounding+words
61flamboyant — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated,… …
62ostentatious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, fine,… …
63fulsome — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, adulatory, affected, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad smelling, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, bedizened, beggarly, below contempt,… …
64overelaborate — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, arabesque, artificial, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy,… …
65overwrought — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, distracted, edgy, elaborate, elegant,… …
66pompous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional,… …
67stilted — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous,… …
68King Kong — This article is about the character. For the film, see King Kong (1933 film). For the 2005 remake of the 1933 film, see King Kong (2005 film). For other uses, see King Kong (disambiguation). The original stop motion animated King Kong from the… …
69Criticism of college and university rankings (2007 United States) — refers to a 2007 movement which developed among faculty and administrators in American Institutions of Higher Education. It follows previous movements in the U.S. and Canada (by schools in the 1990s such as Reed College, Stanford University, Alma …
70Learning to read — Part of a series on Reading …
