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112 lines
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{
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"orotund":{
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"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
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"examples":[
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"the tenor's orotund voice was just what this soaring aria needs"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"golden",
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"plangent",
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"resonant",
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"resounding",
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"reverberant",
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"reverberating",
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"reverberative",
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"ringing",
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"rotund",
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"round",
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"sonorous",
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"vibrant"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"deep",
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"full",
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"mellifluent",
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"mellifluous",
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"mellow",
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"plummy",
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"rich",
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"loud",
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"powerful",
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"stentorian",
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"thundering",
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"thunderous"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"cavernous",
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"hollow",
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"faint",
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"low",
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"murmurous",
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"muted",
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"smothered",
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"soft",
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"weak",
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"thin",
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"tinny"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases":{
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"examples":[
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"a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bombastic",
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"flatulent",
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"fustian",
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"gaseous",
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"gassy",
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"grandiloquent",
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"oratorical",
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"rhetorical",
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"rhetoric",
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"windy"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"bloated",
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"elevated",
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"florid",
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"flowery",
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"grandiose",
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"highfalutin",
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"hifalutin",
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"high-flown",
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"high-sounding",
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"inflated",
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"lofty",
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"ornate",
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"pompous",
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"pontifical",
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"pretentious",
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"stilted",
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"tumid",
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"turgid",
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"overdone",
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"verbose",
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"wordy"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"eloquent",
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"well-spoken",
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"bald",
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"direct",
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"matter-of-fact",
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"plain",
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"plainspoken",
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"simple",
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"stark",
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"straightforward",
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"unadorned",
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"unaffected",
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"unpretentious"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"unrhetorical"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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}
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} |