Overblown/wordy

1. bombastic – a) high-sounding, high-flown, inflated, pretentious, pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose; b) characterized by bombast, a speech too pompous for the occasion at which it is delivered; c) suggests language with a theatricality of staginess of style far too powerful or declamatory for the meaning or sentiment being expressed (i.e. a bombastic sermon on the evils of watching television)

2. grandiloquent – a) speaking or expressing in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic; b) turgid, inflated, rhetorical, pretentious, grandiose, showy, ostentatious

3. prolix – a) extended to great, unnecessary or tedious length, long and wordy; b) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length; c) prolonged, protracted

4. verbose – a) characterized by the use of too many words, wordy; b) prolix, tedious, inflated, turgid, voluble, talkative, loquacious, bombastic

5. circumlocution – a) a roundabout or indirect way of speaking, the use of more words than necessary to express an idea; b) a roundabout expression; c) from the Latin meaning “talking in circles” circum is the prefix implying something circular, loc is the root meaning language, speech; d) rambling, meandering, verbosity, prolixity

6. loquacious – a) talking or tending to talk much a freely, talkative, chattering, babbling, garrulous; characterized by excessive talk, wordy; c) verbose, voluble

7. rhetoric – a) the undue use of exaggeration or display, bombast; b) the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including all figures of speech; c) the ability to use language effectively; d) the art of influencing the thought and conduct of an audience

8. eloquent – a) having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech; b) characterized by forceful and appropriate expressing; c) movingly expressive; d) suggests clarity and power in the language (i.e. an eloquent plea for nuclear disarmament); e) fluent, articulate, expressive

9. garrulous – a) excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters; b) wordy or diffuse; c) prating, babbling, verbose, prolix

10. turgid – a) swollen, distended, tumid; b) inflated, overblown, pompous

DICTATORIAL

1. dogmatic – a) of or pertaining to the nature of a dogma or dogmas (dogma is a series of principles or tenets, as of the church or a party, prescribed doctrine, a settled or established opinion, belief or principle), doctrinal; b) asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; c) arbitrary, imperious, dictatorial

2. hegemony – a) leadership or predominant influence exercise by one nation or others, as in a confederation; b) leadership, predominance; c) aggressiveness of large nations in an effort to achieve world domination

3. ascendancy – a) the state of being in the ascendant, governing or controlling influence; b) domination, primacy, hegemony, predominance, command, sovereignty, mastery, supremacy

4. peremptory – a) leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; b) imperious or dictatorial; c) positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner; d) in which a command is absolute and unconditional; e) arbitrary, dogmatic, domineering

5. authoritarian – a) favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority, as opposed to individual freedom; b) of or pertaining to an governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely insubordinate to the power centered in one person or a small group; c) exercising almost complete control over the will of another or of others

6. tyrannical – a) of or characteristic of a tyrant; b) unjustly cruel, harsh or severe, arbitrary or oppressive, despotic, dictatorial, imperious, domineering

7. potentate – a) a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch or ruler

8. despotic – a) of or pertaining to the nature of a despot, autocratic, absolute, unlimited power; b) characterized by being a tyrant or oppressor

9. imperious – a) domineering in a haughty manner, dictatorial, despotic; b) urgent, imperative, tyrannical, despotic, arrogant

HATRED

1. abhorrence – a) a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; b) utter loathing, abomination; c) execration, detestation

2. antipathy – a) a natural, basic or habitual repugnance, aversion; b) an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling; c) disgust, abhorrence, detestation, hatred, aversion

3. loathing – a) strong dislike or disgust; b) intense aversion; c) abhorrence, hatred, aversion

4. rancor – a) bitter, rankling, resentment or ill-will, hatred, malice; b) bitterness, spite, venom, animosity, malevolence

5. acrimony – a) sharpness, hardness or bitterness or nature, speech, disposition; b) bitterness, animosity, spitefulness, asperity, spite

6. antagonism – a) an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups; b) an opposing force, principle, or tendency; c) conflict, friction, strife, animosity

7. detestation – a) abhorrence, hatred; b) a person or thing detested or hated

8. malice – a) desire to inflict injury, harm or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness; b) evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others; c) ill will, spite, spitefulness, animosity, enmity, grude

9. anathema – a) a person or thing detested or loathed; b) a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction; c) any imprecation of divine punishment; d) a curse, execration, bane

10. enmity – a) a feeling or condition of hostility, hatred or ill-will, animosity, antagonism; b) malice, acrimony, rancor

11. odium – a) intense hatred or dislike toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable or repugnant; b) the reproach, opprobrium or discredit attached to something hated or repugnant; c) detestation, abhorrence, antipathy, obloquy

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