Showing posts with label grandiloquent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandiloquent. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Words, words, I love words


I'll begin this post by revealing my favorite word: lull. I have no specific reason save that this word consists of four letters, three of which are L. I would like to put forth a new word for vocabulary, picked at random, as much as possible. For this post, the word is grandiloquent.
Grandiloquent: Pronunciation\gran-ˈdi-lə-kwən(t)s\ Function:noun
Etymology: probably from Middle French, from Latin grandiloquus using lofty language, from grandis + loqui to speak
Date: 1589
: a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language