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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deliver speech |
| Synonyms: | address, declaim, lecture, orate, rant, speak |
| Main Entry: | gibber |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blab, blather, blubber, blurt, burble, cackle, chat, chatter, gabble, go on, gossip, gush, jabber, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, prate, prattle, rant, rave, run off at the mouth, run on, spill the beans, squeal, tal, talk foolishly, talk incoherently |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
| Synonyms: | boastful, claptrap, eloquence, fustian, grandiosity, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity |
| Notes: | magniloquence refers to a language that is lofty and extravagant, whereas grandiloquence refers to a language that is pompous or bombastic |
| Main Entry: | orotundity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, histrionics, magniloquence, pomposity, rant, turgidity |
| Main Entry: | rhapsodize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rave |
| Synonyms: | babble, be delirious, bloviate, blow one's top, carry on*, come unglued, declaim, flip one's lid, freak out, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, make a to-do, mouth, orate, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar*, run amuck, splutter, storm*, talk wildly, thunder, wander |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tall talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, overstatement, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turgidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, histrionics, magniloquence, orotundity, pomposity, rant |
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| Main Entry: | anger |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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acrimonious, angry, begrumpled, bitter, boiling, boiling over, burning, cantankerous, convulsed with rage, cross, diversivolent, emporté, fierce, fiery, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, foaming, foaming at the mouth, fractious, fuming, furibund, furious, glowering, horn, indignant, infuriate, iracund, irascent, irate, ireful, mad with rage, madbrained, offended, on one's high ropes, rabid, rageful, raging, relentless, savage, set against, sore, spleenful, splenetic, stomachous, sulky, surly, thrunched, umbrageous, up in arms, violent, virulent, warm, waxy, wild, worked up, wrath, wrathful, wrought, zowerswopped
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| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bombastic, egregious, exaggerated, extravagant, fabulous, high, on stilts, overwrought, preposterous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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