bombast vs steep

bombast

verb
  • To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad. 

  • To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner. 

noun
  • High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking. 

adj
  • Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent. 

steep

verb
  • To soak or wet thoroughly. 

  • To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in. 

noun
  • A rennet bag. 

  • The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity. 

  • A liquid used in a steeping process 

adj
  • expensive 

  • resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular 

  • Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical. 

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