;Posted on 10/10/2012 5:01:30 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 10, 2012-- magniloquent
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
magniloquent [mag-nil-uh-kwuhnt]
adjective
speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
Origin: 1650–60; back formation from Latin magniloquentia elevated language, equivalent to magniloqu ( us ) speaking grandly ( magni- magni- + loqu ( ī ) to speak + -us adj. suffix) + -entia -ence
Related forms:
mag•nil•o•quence, noun
mag•nil•o•quent•ly, adverb
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
The answer to this one is too easy. Obama tries to speak with magniloquence and just comes off as a big phoney. And a repetitive big phoney,to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZgQhnNRSuw
Those were students from the University of Wisconsin, sad to say. How embarrassing for us.
you can’t take responsibility for the students at your public universities! i know of two Maryland Lib families who had kids graduate from u of WI in the past few years, so you have the libs from all over going to school there!
and yes i see the typo in magniloquent.
Yes...But we have embarrassing idiots in all states, so don’t feel too badly about it.
He thinks he’s royal? He’s about to get a royal flush. And I know just the right toilet paper to use.
i may have to buy that as gag gift for christmas.
He believed he won the debate, too.
i believe that michelle disabused him of that notion within a nanosecond of taking the stage....
six trillion dollar man
doesn’t have a budget plan
he didn’t build that
he didn’t build that......
now I have an earworm
six trillion dollar man
doesn’t have a budget plan
you didn’t build that
you didn’t build that......
now I have an earworm
Joe the Plagiarizer, magniloquent
Walter, the prop of a ventriloquist;
like two peas in a pod
with brains made of wood
What a joke the VP will have been.
Yeah but it's a good earworm.
Nice double post. Now I have an earworm. :)
so is he the one sending out all those emails asking for help getting his royal booty safely into the american banking system.
A++
The debates: from rope-a-dope to just plain dope.
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