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braggadocio
vs
bravado
braggadocio
noun
A braggart.
Empty boasting.
bravado
noun
A swaggering show of defiance or courage.
A false show of courage.
How often have the words
braggadocio
and
bravado
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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