Thursday, September 2, 2010

demagogue

1. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
2. (in ancient Greece and Rome) A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people

Friday, August 20, 2010

surreptitious

1 : done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine
2 : acting or doing something clandestinely : stealthy, a surreptitious glance

Monday, August 9, 2010

bloviate

–verb (used without object), ‐at·ed, ‐at·ing.
to speak pompously.

—Related forms
blo·vi·a·tion, noun

Monday, July 19, 2010

Bathetic

–adjective - displaying or characterized by bathos

Bathos - noun -

1. a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.
2. insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.
3. triteness or triviality in style.

Friday, February 12, 2010

quietus

[kwahy-ee-tuhs]-noun -
1. removal from activity; rest; death 2. acquisition from obligation, debt