- amalgamation - the action, process, or result of combining or uniting.
- e.g., the threat of amalgamation with another college
- cause (an offence) to seem less serious
- e.g., even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence
- caveat - a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
- "there are a number of caveats which concern the validity of the assessment results"
- claptrap - absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas.
- e.g., "such sentiments are just pious claptrap"
- conceived on a very grand or ambitious scale.
- e.g., grandiose plans to reform the world
- e.g., "he entertained London society with great panache"
- edifice - a large, imposing building / a complex system of beliefs
- egregious - outstandingly bad; shocking.
- e.g., "egregious abuses of copyright"
- extenuate
- flamboyant confidence of style or manner.
- grandiose
- impressive and imposing in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so.
- e.g., the court's grandiose facade
- make (someone) thin.
- e.g., his whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue
- mecca - a place that attracts many people
- ostentatious - characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress.
- "a simple design that is glamorous without being ostentatious"
- outlandish - looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar; foreign or alien
- panache
- pernicious - having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
- e.g., the pernicious effects of air pollution
- prescient - having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
- e.g., "a prescient warning"
- zhng (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, no simple past or past participle) (Singapore, colloquial, transitive) To modify (a gadget or vehicle). quotations ▼ (Singapore, colloquial, transitive, by extension) To embellish or redecorate.
- zhuzh - make something more stylish, lively, or attractive.
- e.g., the bag is a cool but economical way to zhuzh up many an outfit
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