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turgidity
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, histrionics, magniloquence, orotundity, pomposity, rant |
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| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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bombastic, egregious, exaggerated, extravagant, fabulous, high, on stilts, overwrought, preposterous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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allegorical, anapestic, dactylic, descriptive, dialectic, elliptical, humorous, hyperbolic, iambic, interrogative, ironical, metaphorical, narrative, ornamental, prosaic, rhythmical, sarcastic, symbolic, synonymous, tautologic, trochaic, witty
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| Concept: | Exaggeration. |
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exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry., storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing (overestimation); puff, puffery (boasting); rant (turgescence)., figure of speech, facon de parler; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy (imagination)., false coloring (falsehood); aggravation.
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