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
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
surreptitious
1 : done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine
2 : acting or doing something clandestinely : stealthy, a surreptitious glance
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
to speak pompously.
—Related forms
blo·vi·a·tion, noun
Monday, July 19, 2010
Bathetic
–adjective - displaying or characterized by bathos
Bathos - noun -
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
1. removal from activity; rest; death 2. acquisition from obligation, debt
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