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Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

Stride :: Stride (v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner..

Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..

Harangue :: Harangue (n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting..

Showiness :: Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Splendid :: Splendid (a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant..

Consequentially :: Consequentially (adv.) With assumed importance; pompously.

Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big..

Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of..

Emblazon :: Emblazon (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.

Owlism :: Owlism (n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.

Pomposity :: Pomposity (n.) The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.

Spout :: Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

Altisonant :: Altisonant (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous.

Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..

Johnsonese :: "Johnsonese (n.) The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words..

Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.

Altiloquent :: Altiloquent (a.) High-sounding; pompous in speech.

Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..

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