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Orotund Adj Voice Phrasing Full Round Imposing Pompous

Word orotund
Definition adj. Of a voice or phrasing, full, round, and imposing.
adj. Pompous; pretentious.
Sentence I could smell the orotund emissions of power sent out by flag-waving Army motors.
Source Midnight's Children, p. 402

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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