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  • 21bombastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, declamatory, grandiloquent, orotund, lofty, inflated, grandiose, rhetorical, high sounding, high flown, fustian, flowery, florid, pretentious, ostentatious, overwrought, overblown, magniloquent, euphuistic,… …

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  • 22fustian — n 1. bombast, rant, grandiosity, rodomontade, pomposity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; tumidity, turgidity, flatulence, Archaic. tympany; extravagance, high flown language, flowery speech, exaggerated language, overstatement, sesquipedality;… …

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  • 23heroic — adj. & n. adj. 1 a (of an act or a quality) of or fit for a hero. b (of a person) like a hero. 2 a (of language) grand, high flown, dramatic. b (of a work of art) heroic in scale or subject. 3 (of poetry) dealing with the ancient heroes. n. (in… …

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  • 24Għana (folk music) — For other meanings: see Ghana (disambiguation) Għana (pronounced /a:nə/ ah na ) is the term given to a specific type of traditional Maltese folk music. The word can have two literal meanings, the first meaning richness, wealth and prosperity. The …

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  • 25bombastic — [bäm bas′tik] adj. using or characterized by high sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent bombastically adv. SYN. BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal… …

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  • 26S. Yizhar — MKs Date of birth = 27 September 1916 Year of Aliyah = Date of death = 21 August 2006 Knesset(s) = 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. 5th, 6th Party = Rafi Former parties = Mapai Gov t roles = Yizhar Smilansky ( he. יזהר סמילנסקי, born 27 September 1916, died… …

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  • 27G. B. Senanayake — G.B. Senanayake (July 13, 1913 March 16, 1985) was a prominent Sinhala writer who portrayed Sinhala middle class life in his novels. He is credited with introducing free verse poetry to Sinhala.He became blind later in his life and still managed… …

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  • 28List of Latin phrases (S) — This page lists direct English translations of Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of… …

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  • 29rhetoric — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. oratory, eloquence, elocution, declamation, floridity. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Speech] Syn. composition, discourse, oratory, oration; see eloquence 1 , speech 3 . 2. [Grandiloquence] Syn.… …

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  • 30Dilton Doiley — Dilton Donald Doiley First appearance Pep Comics #78 Hometown Riverdale School Riverdale High School Family …

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