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Today's Word "turgid"

Swollen or bloated on

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turgid \TUR-jid\ (adjective) - 1 : Swollen, bloated, puffed up; as, "a turgid limb." 2 : Swelling in style or language; bombastic, pompous; as, "a turgid style of speaking."

"Here and there among the turgid muddle, out of the impact of unassimilated things, comes a spark of real poetry." -- John Roderigo Dos Passos, 'Rosinante to the Road Again'

 

Turgid derives from Latin turgidus, from turgere, to swell.


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