Word of the Day – July 21, 2018

grandiloquence

(grăn-dĭl′ə-kwəns)

n.

Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.

[From grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus : grandis, great + loquī, to speak; see tolkw in Indo-European roots.]

gran·dil′o·quent adj.
gran·dil′o·quent·ly adv.