Monthly Archives: January 2008

mountebank

1. a hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks. 2. a flamboyant charlatan

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canard

1. an unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story 2. a short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft … mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer

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divers

various; several; sundry

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imperious

1. arrogantly domineering or overbearing 2. urgent; pressing 3. (obsolete) regal; imperial

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bloviate

to discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner (slang)

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