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111bravado — n braggadocio, gasconade, swagger; bragging, boasting, blowing, crowing, vaunting, name dropping; fanfaronade, bluster, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas; bombast, pomposity, rodomontade, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence …
112egotistic — adj 1. conceited, self important, self centered, self admiring, self worshiping, self esteeming, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; vain, vainglorious, proud, overproud, overweening, puffed up, inflated, swollen, swellheaded, Inf. big headed;… …
113flash — n 1. streak, patch, glint, lightning; shaft, ray, beam; gleam, glare, fulguration, coruscation; brightness, dazzle, dazzling, bedazzlement, bedazzling, blinding; blaze, flame, flare, spark, scintilla, scintillation; shimmer, flicker, twinkle,… …
114magniloquent — adj pompous, bombastic, fustian, orotund; grandiloquent, high sounding, high flown, Inf. highfalutin, pretentious, stilted, grandiose, Archaic. magnisonant; turgid, tumid, inflated, puffed up; boastful, thrasonical, bragging, braggart, crowing,… …
115mouth — n 1. orifice, oral opening or cavity, muzzle, Sl. kisser, Sl. yap, Sl. trap, Sl. bazoo, chops, jaw or jaws; jawbone, maxilla, mandible. 2. utterance, expression, ventilation, airing, voice, vocalization. 3. idle or empty talk, boasting, bragging …
116ostentation — n display, ritz, Inf. swank, splash, flourish, flashiness, frills; blazon, tinsel, trappings, spectacle, show, parade, pageantry, pomp; gilding, conspicuous consumption, window dressing, Inf. front, veneer, Inf. dog, Inf. keeping up with the… …
117parade — n 1. procession, promenade, progression, succession; train, file, string, straggle; caravan, troop, review, file, column, rank and file, march, march past; cortege, funeral procession, autocade, motorcade; demonstration, field day, turnout,… …
118pretense — n 1. pretending, feigning, faking, simulation; make believe, fantasy, fabrication, concoction, invention, creation; figment, fiction, fable; false show, semblance, appearance, guise, color; disguise, camouflage, masquerade, mask, veil, cloak,… …
119ritz — n 1. ostentation, ostentatious or pretentious display, Inf. swank, splash, flourish, flashiness, frills; spectacle, show, parade, pageantry, pomp; pomposity, pompousness, inflation, peacockery, foppery; vaunting, flaunting, affectation; semblance …
120vaunted — UK [ˈvɔːntɪd] / US [ˈvɔntəd] adjective formal generally praised, or described as very important or successful Derived word: vaunt verb transitive Word forms vaunt : present tense I/you/we/they vaunt he/she/it vaunts present participle vaunting… …
