Thursday, November 17, 2005

rodomontade [r^o,d-o.m^on.t-ad'] noun.
secondary variant: rhodomontade

Grandiloquence; magniloquence.

{French, from Italian..........................................................}
rodomontade adjective.
rodomontades; rodomontading; rodomontaded intransitive verb.

pleonasm [pl-e'-o,n^az.m] noun.

1. The use of words that can be taken out without changing the idea.
2. An redundant word or phrase.

{From Greek........................................................................}
pleonastic adjective.
pleonastically adverb.