3
grandiose
3
inkhorn(adjective, attitude, flexible, teach)
3
magniloquent
3
orotund
3
overscrupulous
3
professorial(adjective, sound, knowledgeable, cultured, educated)
3
recondite(adjective, sound, obscure, complex, knowledgeable)
3
vain
2
big-sounding(ornament, affectation)
2
declamatory
2
euphemistic
2
flashy
2
formalistic(adjective, attitude, flexible, teach)
2
grandiloquent
2
superficial(counterfeit, affected, hollow, pretentious, shallow)
2
abstruse(adjective, sound, obscure, complex, precise)
2
captious(adjective, trivial, critical, overcritical, censorious)
2
carping(adjective, critical, overcritical, censorious)
2
caviling(adjective, critical, overcritical, censorious)
2
conventional
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