Ornament
Nouns
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ornament
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floridness etc. adj.. turgidity, turgescence
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altiloquence etc. adj.
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declamation, teratology
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well-rounded periods
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elegance etc. Elegance
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orotundity. inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia
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figurativeness etc. (metaphor) Metaphor. flourish
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flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric
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frills of style, euphuism, euphemism. big-sounding words, high-sounding words
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macrology, Alexandrine
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inflation, pretension
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rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad
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fine writing
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sesquipedality
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Minerva press. phrasemonger
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euphuist, euphemist.
Verbs
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ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge
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smell of the lamp.
Adjectives
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ornament etc. v.
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beautified etc. Ornament
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ornate, florid, rich, flowery
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euphuistic, euphemistic
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sonorous
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high-sounding, big-sounding
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inflated, swelling, tumid
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turgid, turgescent
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pedantic, pompous, stilted
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orotund
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high flown, high flowing
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sententious, rhetorical, declamatory
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grandiose
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grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent
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sesquipedal, sesquipedalian
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Johnsonian, mouthy
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bombastic
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fustian
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frothy, flashy, flaming. antithetical, alliterative
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figurative etc. Metaphor
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artificial etc. (inelegant) Inelegance.