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Esoteric

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Understood by chosen few

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Bombastic

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Pompous, Ostentatious

High sounding but with little meaning

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Euphemism

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Word substituted for one considered to be too harsh

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Idiomatic

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Using contain for denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker

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Insipid

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Lacking vigor to intrest

Uninteresting, tame, dull

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Jargon

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Vocabulary for a profession

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Moralistic

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Puritanical or righteous person

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