This week’s theme
Misc words

This week’s words
coruscate
plenitude
rufescent
brume
altiloquent

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Next week’s theme
Words made with combining forms

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PRONUNCIATION:

(al-TIL-uh-kwuhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Pompous or pretentious.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin altus (high) + loquentem (speaking), from loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1656.

USAGE:

“He reasons that most of us have a high opinion of ourselves and we feel validated when we hear others volunteering their own similar perceptions of our grandeur -- so long as those words come across as sincere rather than altiloquent.”
James Adonis; Sucking Up: Does It Work?; The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Feb 21, 2014.

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