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To: E. Charters who wrote (18594)9/13/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: Gabriela Neri  Read Replies (1) of 116753
 
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For all those threadsters who appreciate an expansion in vocabulary from the always sesquipedal E. Charters.

jejune

jejune (je-j­n') adjective
1.Not interesting; dull: "and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases" (Anthony Trollope).
2.Lacking maturity; childish: surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.
3.Lacking in nutrition: a jejune diet.

[From Latin iˆi£nus, meager, dry, fasting.]
- jejune'ly adverb
- jejune'ness noun

declamatory (dŒ-kl…m'e-t“r'ˆ, -tor'ˆ) adjective
1. Having the quality of a declamation.
2. Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.

Excerpted from The American Heritager Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition c 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
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