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- Thesaurus|505
- Abbreviations|0
| sesquipedalian | |
| swollen(adjective, style, plain, words, wordy) | |
| vocal(adjective, stirring, expressive, wordy, fluent) | |
| artificial | |
| baroque(adjective, rich, extravagant, elaborate, ornate) | |
| big-sounding | |
| contrived | |
| elaborate(adjective, noble, rich, extravagant, loud) | |
| for effect | |
| nonliteral | |
| oratory | |
| outspoken(speech, stirring, expressive, fluent) | |
| overdone(adjective, wordy, flowery) | |
| rhetoric | |
| rococo(adjective, extravagant, elaborate, ornate, baroque) | |
| silver-tongued(adjective, stirring, expressive, wordy, fluent) | |
| swelling | |
| tortuous(tedious, involved, diffuse, talkative, wordy) | |
| tumescent(adjective, wordy, flowery) | |
| unanswerable |
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