rhetoric???
- From: "thom_j." <thom_j2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:13:43 -0400
rhetoric = jazz?
yep.. you don't have to look it up cuz' we already did..
{{{ jazz }}}
Entry Word: rhetoric
Function: noun
Text: 1 language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere
<the mayor's promise to fight drugs was just rhetoric, since there was no
money in the city budget for a drug program>
Synonyms bombast, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, oratory, wind
Related Words claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky,
{{{ jazz }}}, moonshine, nonsense; affectedness, floweriness, grandiosity,
loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousness; verboseness, verbosity,
windiness, wordiness
2 the art or power of speaking or writing in a forceful and convincing way
<great leaders have often been masters of rhetoric, which they have used for
both good and ill> -- see
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