Bombastic - answer✔(adj.) pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words
intended to conceal a lack of ideas
requisite - answer✔necessary for relief or supply
apocryphal - answer✔of questionable authenticity
laconic - answer✔brief and to the point
garrulous - answer✔full of trivial conversation
ascetic - answer✔practicing great self-denial
taciturn - answer✔habitually reserved and uncommunicative
tempestuous - answer✔(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
demarcation - answer✔the boundary of a specific area
execrable - answer✔of very poor quality or condition
prolific - answer✔bearing in abundance especially offspring
eclectic - answer✔selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
expediency - answer✔A means of achieving a particular end, as in a situation requiring haste or
caution.
harrowing - answer✔extremely painful
prodigious - answer✔so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
stymied - answer✔thwarted; stumped; blocked
sidereal - answer✔of or relating to the stars or constellations
etiolated - answer✔weakened or sickly
circumscribed - answer✔restricted or limited
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