What is the meaning of ostentatious? How would you use it in a sentence?
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The ostentatious display of wealth failed to impress us.\n\nostentatious\n     adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an\n            ostentatious sable coat" [syn: pretentious] [ant: unostentatious]\n     2: of a display that is tawdry or vulgar [syn: pretentious, kitsch]
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You want to describe the phrase?\n\nOr do you want an equivalent of your long-winded (that describes it) phrase in a single adjective?\n\nPrecambrian or Precambrianic...   ?
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Main Entry: bom·bas·tic \nPronunciation: bäm-'bas-tik\nFunction: adjective\n: marked by or given to bombast : POMPOUS, OVERBLOWN\n- bom·bas·ti·cal·ly  /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb   \nGrandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
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No, not immobilize or denature. Both don't sound good to my ears. I think the term inactivate, is more suitable.\nThey stay in a latent form.\n\nKaterina
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Hello Saphire,\nI know you are not enquiring about the word rigorous (it in itself is a first rate word)  but other words you could use in place of it are also great words:\narduous\nmeticulous\n\nConsequential is a word I like to use in place of important.\nIntuitive is another favourite.\nI like to think of common words people overuse, then find a more interesting one to replace it with.\nWords are remarkable aren't they?
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The adjective "perilous" means full of risk, dangerous and could be observed as a formal one. Here are some sentences with it:\n" A perilous journey across the mountains".\n"The perilous state of the religion".\n"They were perilously close to the edge of the abyss"\n\nHope that is of help.\nHave a great day!
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Could mean:\n\nA military punishment now discontinued. It was a flogging-stool.\n\nor\n\nTo sail aboard a ship, brig, or boat, etc.
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Gregarious is bring very friendly and sociable. It is usually considered a good thing. But in a school setting it can sometimes be used to describe a child that is a little "too friendly" and can sometimes be a distraction to the class.
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i would say "O." because the definition is "used to express surprise or strong emotion" but possibly you need more words with it. other than that, i guess "No" is a sentence.
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A couple of actual dictionary definitions:\n\nbla•tant   \nadj. \n1.Unpleasantly loud and noisy: “There are those who find the trombones blatant and the triangle silly, but both add effective color” (Musical Heritage Review). See Synonyms at vociferous. \n2.Usage Problem. Totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive: a blatant lie. \n\n \n[From Latin blat re, to blab (on the model of words such as rampant).] \n \nbla tan•cy n. \nbla tant•ly adv. \nUsage Note: It is not surprising that blatant and flagrant are often confused, since the words have overlapping meanings. Both attribute conspicuousness and offensiveness to certain acts. Blatant emphasizes the failure to conceal the act. Flagrant, on the other hand, emphasizes the serious wrongdoing inherent in the offense. Certain contexts may admit either word depending on what is meant: a violation of human rights might be either blatant or flagrant. If it was committed with contempt for public scrutiny, it is blatant. If its barbarity was monstrous, it is flagrant. •Blatant is sometimes used to mean simply “obvious,” as in the blatant danger of such an approach, but this use has not been established and is widely considered an error.\n\nSource: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition\nCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.\nPublished by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.\n\nblatantly\nadv : in a blatant manner; "they blatantly violated the laws"\nSource: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
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First one need to know what preceeded before he wrote..what a pox. if he was talking about someone, then meaning he is like a disease. Like what a fake, what a slimeball etc...Get it?
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What's the defintion?\n\nWas Validictorian the word you were looking for?
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I am guessing that it is a phrasal verb- please cut using it (like cut it out=stop it-> stop using it ).\n\nOr literally: Cut it when/before being used.\n\nThat's till where my imagination can work.\nHope it helps.
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You mean adulation. It means flattery.\n\nAnd from the American Heritage dictionary: excessive flattery or admiration.
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It is not a sentence...\n\nBeneath the noted universal concerns there lies a distinctive world view.\n\n Or better yet use a semi colon after the word preceeding but ..then replacing it with however and a comma...like this \n\n" ; however, beneath these universal concerns there lies a distinctive worldview."
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I've not heard the phrase, but if they are referring to something getting smaller, that would be the more common use for the word "lessening".  But if they use the archaic use of the word, it could mean of lessening value.\n\nA synonym for the first definition is decrease, the synonym for the second meaning is degrade.
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State your position in the form of a single sentence and use it as the closing sentence of your first paragraph. For example: A Burger King hamburg is superior to Mcdonald's simply because a broiled burger is better. Or, Abortion should not be illegal but it should not be mandatory either.