Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
BOMBASTIC
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bombastic (comparative more bombastic, superlative most bombastic)
(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Synonyms: inflated, turgid
Antonyms
• (pompous or overly wordy): See Thesaurus:concise
Source: Wiktionary
Bom*bas"tic, Bom*bas"tic*al, a.
Definition: Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated.
– Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.
Syn.
– Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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