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41elevated — Synonyms and related words: Amtrak, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, L, Olympian, accelerated, aerial, affected, afflicted, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, amplified, animated, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, augmented, august, awesome, baggage train …
42Joseph Pomeroy Widney — (December 26, 1841 mdash; July 4, 1938) was a polymathic pioneer American physician, medical topographer, scholar educator, clergyman, entrepreneur philanthropist, proto environmentalist, prohibitionist, philosopher of religion, controversial… …
43highfalutin — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy,… …
44Madeira wine — Madeira is a fortified Portuguese wine made in the Madeira Islands. The wine is produced in a variety of styles ranging from dry wines which can be consumed on their own as an aperitif, to sweet wines more usually consumed with dessert. Cheaper… …
45pretentious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated,… …
46fancy — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Babylonian, Byzantine, Christian love, Corinthian, Daedalian, Eros, Platonic love, a bit much, abandoned, account as, adept, admiration, adoration, adorned, adroit, affection, affinity, agape, aim at, ambitious,… …
47shrill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sharp, piercing, strident, high pitched, piping, penetrating, poignant. See loudness, cry. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. high pitched, piercing, penetrating, sharp, strident, screeching, thin, piping …
48ostentatious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, fine,… …
49Less Than Zero (film) — Infobox Film name = Less Than Zero image size = caption = Theatrical poster director = Marek Kanievska producer = Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner Marvin Worth writer = Harley Peyton (screenplay) Bret Easton Ellis (novel) starring = Andrew McCarthy Jami… …
50Invective Against Swans — from Wallace Stevens s first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923), was first published prior to 1923 andis therefore in the public domain. [http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4077] The poem seems to be an insult poem slamming swans, of all… …
