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hubbub
[huhb-uhb]
a loud, confused noise, as of many voices
prosaic
[proh-zey-ik]
commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
persnickety
[per-snik-i-tee]
overparticular; fussy
infinitesimal
[in-fin-i-tes-uh-muhl]
extremely small; an indefinitely small quantity
apologia
[ap-uh-loh-jee-uh]
a defense especially of one's opinions, position, or actions
synecdoche
[si-nek-duh-kee]
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in Texas won by six runs (meaning “Texas's baseball team”)
bombastic
[bom-bas-tik]
high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious
pleonasm
[plee-uh-naz-uhm]
the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy