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altiloquent
altiloquent \awl-TIL-uh-kwuhnt\, noun
High-flown or pretentious language.
He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.
-- Holman Day, All-Wool Morrison
The meaning of the music was made further explicit by explanations in his own, altiloquent (but purposefully
avoiding the technical) Wagnerian prose, wrapped solicitously around the Goethe passages.
-- Alessandra Comini, The Changing Image of Beethoven
Altiloquent stems from the Latin roots atli meaning "high" and loquentem meaning "speaking."
veloce
GRE Word of the Day
veloce \ve-LAW-che\, adjective:
Played at a fast tempo.
And when I tired of reading I would swim in my pool, parting the azure blue water like a veloce human knife.
-- Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity
Ah, I mention his name and your eyes, they light up veloce come un razzo—fast as a rocket.
-- Jacquie D'Alessandro, Summer at Seaside Cove
Veloce stems from the Latin word velocem which was the accusative form of velox meaning "quick."